Saturday, December 4, 2010

Death toll reaches 40 Europe freeze

Still life in Europe disrupt Warsaw - a fatal Arctic cold Friday chaos to streets and bring frustration for all travellers, while the number of people who died of exposure increased to at least 40.

South-East Europe was spared the snow and ice, but was instead fighting with some of the worst floods in a century. Entire villages in Montenegro with Interior Minister Ivan Brajovic, describes as "unprecedented." by the rising waters submerged the floods.

euweather1203Press Photo Agency A car inside a snowdrift road nearby Rokietnica, Poland.

It has "an early start, winter, because we are still in the fall season", said Omar baddour, a scientist with the world of Meteorology in Geneva. "It is not very, very unusual, but it's an extreme winter magic, goes a few days take."

Mr baddour said that the cooling from North-South winds push an Arctic chill comes over the European continent, a phenomenon at the beginning of the last year seen's long and cold winter. Most of the time winds blow from the West to the East of Europe. But he said it is too early to say, what the early winter weather - usually the sets around Christmas - could announce this year for the continent.

In many parts of Europe train to see continue serious disruptions due to the icy Rails services, but air transport was return to normal in many places. United Kingdom Gatwick Airport reopened after snow a 48-hour closure, forced although his website, warned delays and cancellations as freezing temperatures persisted. London Heathrow Airport was active, but 45 arrivals and departures 25 were demolished.

The Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was again properly but many areas faced France traffic problems, because the snow.

Poland police reported 12 deaths overnight increase in the number of deaths are 30 in the last three days. Police patrols in the hope were street implementation always homeless in shelters because they most of those make that every year freeze.

Animal friends in Poland were also mobilise some open their cellars to stray cats and drag other ducks from frozen lakes. Foresters have from food for bison, elk and other forest dwellers put.

In the Czech Republic, the death of toll rose to four, after a man in Prague was frozen. In Germany, three people have now died while authorities in North England said you the bodies of two older people this week found had believed death to have frozen.

A death reported authorities in the Alpine nation of Austria - not foreign cold and snow - earlier in the week. Weather delayed some flights to Vienna Airport, where a crew of about 80 people were working non-stop officials said runways and air to start and de-icing.

Just across the border in which caused the snow traffic Snarls Slovakia in the city of Bratislava, while a hospital in the eastern city of Presov deals with dozens of injuries, the blame on the snow.

Authorities have declared a State of emergency in three Balkan countries: Bosnia, Serbia Montenegro - and hundreds of people evacuated, after heavy rains caused the worst floods in a century along the Drina River. But receded significantly overnight in Bosnia, leaving a trace floodwaters of mud and stones in many areas.


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