Heavy snow and freezing temperatures have grounded hundreds of flights and snarled road travel across Western Europe, leaving many commuters stranded.
Europe's busiest airport, London Heathrow, has cancelled nearly 180 flights so far, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, and other major hubs aren't faring much better: Frankfurt has cancelled 424 out of 1,190 flights, and "about 40 percent of traffic through Paris's airports today is on hold."
Trains across Europe, including the Eurostar, the underground express line that connects London to Paris, are experiencing heavy service cuts and delays.
The snow has also made road travel treacherous, and several people have died due to icy road conditions.
A British man, 59, was killed when his car slid off the road and crashed into a tree. In France, three soldiers died "after their military car crashed on a slippery road...and a Spanish couple died in an incident involving a truck and 10 cars in the same region," reported Russia Today.
Yesterday in Britain, a man walking his dog discovered the body of a young woman in the snow, who had apparently collapsed and frozen to death.
"It is probably a tragic accident where a young woman was on her way home from a night out and didn't quite make it to the address she was staying at," a local police spokesman told The Telegraph. "We think she slipped on the snow and couldn't get up and lost consciousness because it was so cold or she had a medical episode."
Snowfall and freezing conditions are expected to continue "until at least Thursday," according to Britain's Independent.
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