At least 10 people died of cold in Poland. Night temperatures in Russia plunged to minus 30C.
Normally milder Greece has witnessed temperatures of minus 15C in the north where an Afghan migrant died of cold last week and roads were closed.
In Athens, the temperature failed to rise above 0C and several of the islands were covered in snow.
BBC Weather report about why the cold is so intense.
The extreme winter weather that has gripped Europe in the past days has caused more than a dozen deaths, left villages cut off, caused power and water outages, frozen rivers and lakes, grounded flights and led to road accidents. Serbia's authorities on Sunday banned river traffic on its stretch of the Danube — one of Europe's main rivers — because of ice and strong wind.
[...] In Italy, eight deaths were blamed on the cold, including a man who died in the basement of an unused building in Milan, and another one on a street flanking Florence's Arno River. [Pope] Francis asked God to "warm our hearts so we'll help" the homeless.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 12 2017, @07:09PM
7 January was reported to be the coldest Orthodox Christmas in Moscow for 120 years,
I think if you break a coldness record that's been standing for 120 years you can legitimately call it extreme.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @08:36PM
Nonsense! If there has ever been a time on Earth when it has been colder than that, then it is within normal range and you are an alarmist for suggesting otherwise. Temperatures go up, temperatures go down. You can't explain it. Nobody can explain it.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 12 2017, @08:57PM
You can't explain it. Nobody can explain it.
It's true!
I definitely can't explain how a glob of crazy-warm air over the arctic is displacing all this cold air to more southern regions. [theguardian.com]
And, I should feel bad for trying.