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Bitter weather
is causing chaos throughout much of Europe and police have urged
people to stay at home, rather than risk sub zero temperatures
outside.
Forecasters
predict the severe chill will last until at least tomorrow and
probably longer.
In Britain,
where 7 inches of snow has fallen in many places and temperatures
have been as low as 10 degrees, the transport systems have failed
to cope. Trains have been delayed or cancelled, airports are closed
and freezing fog and black ice are disrupting road traffic.
The sea in
some northern British ports has frozen over.
Eastern and
northern Europe are also struggling against snow, ice and sub
zero temperatures. The mercury in Berlin, Moscow and other capitals,
has been as low as –15 degrees.
In southern
Europe, which has had rain rather than snow, there’s been
flooding and 2,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes
in Montenegro.
Weather forecasters
say the worst is by no means over. A deep depression over the
eastern Atlantic will move onto Europe over the next 48 hours,
bringing gale force winds and heavy rain, which will melt the
snow and produce flooding.
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