{"id":232715,"date":"2026-01-07T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232715\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:58:08","slug":"transport-chaos-seven-deaths-in-cold-snap-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232715\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport chaos, seven deaths in cold snap across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snow, ice and high winds have brought transport chaos to many parts of Europe for a third day, with hundreds of flights cancelled and passengers stranded.<\/p>\n

Airports in Paris and Amsterdam are worst affected, with Dutch authorities saying that more than 1,000 travellers were forced to spend the night at Schiphol, one of Europe’s busiest hubs.<\/p>\n

Seven people have died in weather-related incidents.<\/p>\n

Hungary’s interior ministry said that a woman was killed after a car skidded on ice and crashed into another vehicle.<\/p>\n

Five people have died in France and one in Bosnia since the winter freeze set in on Monday.<\/p>\n

With snowfall continuing, skiers and snowboarders enjoyed hurtling down the steep hills of the Montmartre district in Paris.<\/p>\n

But the cold snap came as a bitter shock to the French capital’s many homeless people.<\/p>\n

Boubacar Camara, who is sleeping in a tent on the city’s outskirts, said that he had “no choice but to keep on going”.<\/p>\n

“You just have to stay strong, make sure you don’t die, you know,” said the 19-year-old.<\/p>\n

“We can’t do anything about the cold. I’m not used to this at all.”<\/p>\n

Hundreds of schools were closed for a third day across Scotland, and English authorities warned of a snowstorm across parts of the country in the coming days that will also affect southern areas of Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nCamp beds were set up in a departure hall at Schiphol Airport<\/p>\n

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at airports across the continent, including Charles de Gaulle and Orly in Paris, Schiphol in Amsterdam, Brussels and Budapest.<\/p>\n

Dublin and Cork airports said that a number of flights to and from Amsterdam and Paris did not operate.<\/p>\n

Watch: Passengers react after snow leads to flight cancellations at Charles de Gaulle Airport <\/p>\n

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Almost half of mainland France is on alert for heavy snow and black ice, and lorries were banned from roads in some areas, forcing truckers to stop work.<\/p>\n

“It’s better to be here than stuck on the road,” said driver Carle Bruno, who managed to get to a service station in the northern port city of Le Havre.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian national weather service, HungaroMet, said that Budapest experienced its heaviest snow for 15 years.<\/p>\n

Forecasters said that temperatures could fall to -20C in some places in Hungary. In neighbouring Austria, the mercury plummeted even further to -24C in the Alps overnight.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy
\nHeavy snow in Vondelpark, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

The UK also experienced plunging temperatures with authorities warning that some rural communities in Scotland could be “cut off” by snow.<\/p>\n

The Eurostar rail service connecting London with continental European cities was also disrupted again with passengers facing cancellations and delays.<\/p>\n

The Balkans region has been hit by heavy snow and floods in recent days and thousands were without power in Serbia after a snowstorm brought down power lines.<\/p>\n

The Albanian port city of Durres was hit by torrential downpours that inundated hundreds of homes and forced around 200 people to move, though officials said conditions were easing.<\/p>\n

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Nordic countries were also facing snow-related chaos, with officials in eastern Sweden warning that power cuts were “likely” because of heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n

Trams were suspended in the western city of Gothenburg, and the authorities in the wider region warned people not to drive and to stay at home if possible.<\/p>\n

French officials banned trucks and school buses from the roads in a third of all \u200dadministrative departments, most in the northern half of the country.<\/p>\n

Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard said the truck ban would bring some disruption to supply chains, in particular fresh \u2060produce.<\/p>\n

Heavy snow and rain have also caused \u200dhavoc across the Western Balkans, closing roads, cutting power and causing rivers to flood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snow, ice and high winds have brought transport chaos to many parts of Europe for a third day,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-232715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}