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03-03-2018, 09:16 AM
Europe´s deep freeze, which has cost at least 60 lives over the past week, showed little sign of ending on Friday as a shivering continent awaited a sliver of weekend respite from the chaos wrought by a brutal Siberian weather system.
After heavy snowfall and deadly blizzards lashed Europe across on Thursday, conditions marginally improved in some regions -- but temperatures generally remained sub-zero, forcing more major delays on roads, railways and at airports.
Geneva´s busy airport announced it had re-opened shortly after midday "despite the unfavourable meteorological conditions", having warned earlier it faced staying shut for a second consecutive day as snowstorms continued to lash the Swiss city. Airport authorities warned, however, of further "delays and cancellations".
Switzerland has seen the mercury plummet to records of up to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the ongoing blizzard, which has also impacted air, road and train transport around Europe and even covered usually balmy Mediterranean beaches with a blanket of snow. Over the past week, the freezing conditions have claimed 60 lives according to an AFP toll -- 23 in Poland, seven in Slovakia, six in the Czech Republic, five in Lithuania, four in France, at least three in Spain, two in Italy, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, and one each in Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.
In Austria meanwhile, five migrants abandoned by smugglers were rescued from a motorway near the city of Graz on Friday, some of them walking barefoot in sub-zero temperatures, according to police.The cold threw a spanner in the works of British Prime Minister Theresa May´s plans to give a speech on Brexit in the northeastern city of Newcastle. May elected to stay put in London given the transport mayhem, which saw motorists stuck in their cars around Manchester in the northwest and troops deployed overnight in Hampshire in the deep south to aid other drivers battling fresh snowfalls and icy gales. Also having to change their plans were Andrew Waring and his wife, Daniella, who gave birth to baby daughter Sienna on the side of a snowbound main road outside the northeastern town of Darlington.
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After heavy snowfall and deadly blizzards lashed Europe across on Thursday, conditions marginally improved in some regions -- but temperatures generally remained sub-zero, forcing more major delays on roads, railways and at airports.
Geneva´s busy airport announced it had re-opened shortly after midday "despite the unfavourable meteorological conditions", having warned earlier it faced staying shut for a second consecutive day as snowstorms continued to lash the Swiss city. Airport authorities warned, however, of further "delays and cancellations".
Switzerland has seen the mercury plummet to records of up to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the ongoing blizzard, which has also impacted air, road and train transport around Europe and even covered usually balmy Mediterranean beaches with a blanket of snow. Over the past week, the freezing conditions have claimed 60 lives according to an AFP toll -- 23 in Poland, seven in Slovakia, six in the Czech Republic, five in Lithuania, four in France, at least three in Spain, two in Italy, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, and one each in Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.
In Austria meanwhile, five migrants abandoned by smugglers were rescued from a motorway near the city of Graz on Friday, some of them walking barefoot in sub-zero temperatures, according to police.The cold threw a spanner in the works of British Prime Minister Theresa May´s plans to give a speech on Brexit in the northeastern city of Newcastle. May elected to stay put in London given the transport mayhem, which saw motorists stuck in their cars around Manchester in the northwest and troops deployed overnight in Hampshire in the deep south to aid other drivers battling fresh snowfalls and icy gales. Also having to change their plans were Andrew Waring and his wife, Daniella, who gave birth to baby daughter Sienna on the side of a snowbound main road outside the northeastern town of Darlington.
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