Snow and cold weather in the Balkans

Belgrade/Skopje/Bucharest.Snowfalls and temperatures below zero covered the Balkans and caused serious troubles, media reported. Many cars in Serbia remained blocked on the roads and Macedonia initiated traffic restitutions for heavy-freight vehicles in certain areas. Heavy snow fell in Romania. In Bosnia and Herzegovina today, temperatures are expected to fall to minus 21 degrees Celsius.
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In the central part of Montenegro, according to information traffic is completely blocked by large snow drifts, and traffic in the rest of the country is hampered by low temperatures.
In Romania, the snow cover has reached 2.5 meters in places; several important road sections have been blocked.

Cold snap strands thousands of European travellers

PARIS -- Tens of thousands of European travellers were stranded Sunday in rail stations, traffic jams and airports as heavy snow and ice caused massive disruption at the start of the Christmas holiday season.

In Poland at least 15 people died of exposure, mainly the homeless or careless drunks caught outside in temperatures that plunged to minus 20 Celsius (minus four Fahrenheit), according to police.

Another homeless Pole froze to death while sheltering in a doorway in the French Mediterranean port of Marseille, and a Frenchman was found dead in his ice-cold caravan near the northern town of Arras.

In Germany, a 46-year-old homeless man froze to death overnight in the southwestern city of Mannheim while sleeping on a bare pavement, while temperatures in Bavaria plunged to a glacial minus 33.6 degrees Celsius.

Czech Republic reports six cold snap deaths - Monsters and Critics

Prague - Six people are presumed to have fallen victim to freezing temperatures in the Czech Republic since a cold snap hit the country several days ago, police confirmed Sunday.

Cold snap claims lives in Poland - world | Stuff.co.nz

Police say 47 people have already frozen to death countrywide since the beginning of December.