Winter weather creates chaos and deaths in Europe

rijswijk - The extreme winter conditions in Europe have led this weekend chaos. Dozens of people have been killed by flying the wintry weather, planes were grounded and ferries not matter.

Many residents of Crete saw Sunday for the first time in their lives snow. It had been snowing for the last forty years ago. In the northern part of the Aegean Sea, particularly the islands, the Sporades burden of heavy snowfall. On the island of Skopelos fell overnight more than half a meter. Lesvos succumbed dozens of tents in a large refugee camp where 5,000 people live under the snow.

Poland certainly were ten people by the cold. The temperature dropped in the Eastern European country to below minus 20 degrees. In Belgium passed a truck that slid his truck on the highway. In Italy frozen six homeless death. Heavy snow and strong winds made in the southern European country for many air traffic delays. Trains reason and roads were closed. Rome frozen fountains in St. Peter's Square.

The Turkish city of Istanbul is weighed down by heavy snowfall. Turkish Airlines canceled 650 flights Saturday certainly from the port city. The coldest place in Europe's northern Lapland, where the temperature at night drops to around minus 40 degrees. But also in Central Europe last night was bitterly cold. In two places in the German state of Bavaria dropped the mercury in the night from Friday to Saturday to minus 26 degrees Celsius.

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The next few days expect the meteorologists higher temperatures and back large quantities of snow.