Extra measures are also being taken in European countries that are better adapted to snow due to heavy snowfall.
“Winter still has a firm grip on Germany,” reports the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. In Hamburg, residents are allowed to spread road salt on frozen sidewalks and bicycle paths until January 21. Normally this is prohibited due to the negative consequences for nature. This northern German city has not seen so much snow in fifteen years, reported the city council on Tuesday. Local authorities are warning people who have a Spaziergang want to take (walk) in the forest for branches that can collapse under the weight of snow.
In the Île-de-France region, where Paris is located, it was Wednesday morning 800 kilometers of traffic jam. Because in addition to highways, runways also need to be cleared of snow and ice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport has now canceled approximately a hundred flights. The airport in the Orly suburb is canceling about forty flights, Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said Le Monde. Some Eurostar trains between London and Paris, Rotterdam and Amsterdam have also been removed from the schedule.
Code orange has been declared in a third of France. “Strangely enough, the biggest problems occur in the south of the country, where the winter is normally much less severe,” stilt Frank Renout, France correspondent for VRT.
The BBC reports that approximately four hundred Scottish schools in the north and northeast are snow-free. On Tuesday, students from 350 schools were required to stay at home. Some children in Aberdeenshire, Moray and Aberdeen have now been unable to attend school for three weeks.
A snowball fight in Paris on January 5.
PHOTO Eric BARADAT/AFP
A participant of the Epiphany swimming tour in Prague on January 6.
PHOTO Petr David Josek/AP
Birds search for food in Berlin.
PHOTO Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
The snowy banks of the Seine.
Photo Bertrand GUAY/AFP
A cyclist braves the snow in Nantes in western France.
PHOTO Loic VENANCE/AFP
Children in Namur, Belgium, play in the snow on January 5.
PHOTO BRUNO FAHY / Belga / AFP
Snow-covered trees in Frankfurt on January 6.
PHOTO Matias Basualdo/EPA
A cyclist rides through Antwerp.
PHOTO Virginia Mayo/AP
A child sits on a sled in Aalborg, Denmark, on January 2.
PHOTO Henning Bagger/AFP
People walk through the snow in the Spanish city of Teruel on January 5.
Photo ANTONIO GARCIA/EPA
Motorists drive on the highway near Kontich, Belgium.
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