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Severe winter weather grips Europe

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Severe winter weather grips Europe

A wave of cold and snowy weather continues to grip Europe, grounding airplanes, trains and cars and causing dozens of deaths.

Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the United Kingdom in decades got no reprieve from Mother Nature on Sunday. Channel 4 and other British media delivered more bad news - including weather-related deaths.

A week of snow and ice also temporarily shuttered Dublin airport and led to cancellations of planes, trains and sporting events in London and elsewhere.

Conditions are not much better in France, where weather forecasters are predicting more arctic temperatures on Monday and a wave of snow to hit some parts of the country on Tuesday.

Snow has also grounded flights around the country. Roughly 1,000 passengers were forced to spend the night at the Lyon airport and nearby hotels in east-central France.

One irate man told French radio he did not understand why Lyon airport authorities did not open at least one runway, closed by a 20-centimeter snowfall.

Meanwhile, the Eurostar rail service linking London, Brussels and Paris is experiencing delays and cancellations through at least Sunday due to severe weather conditions.

In Germany, more than 160 people were trapped overnight in their cars on an icy highway. They survived by running the heating in their vehicles until police rescued them. Wintry conditions killed at least nine people in Poland over the last week.

Meanwhile, heavy rain and melting snow have cause flooding in parts of Croatia and Bosnia.

Europeans are taking precautions to survive the cold snap. The German government has urged residents to stock up on food and medicines. Britain is cutting down on its industrial gas use to save supplies.

But others are taking advantage of the wintry weather. In the Netherlands, thousands of people laced up their skates and headed out to skate in frozen lakes.

reprieve: postponement or cancellation of a punishment 暂缓或取消处罚

arctic: extremely cold; frigid 极寒的

irate: extremely angry; enraged 发怒的;生气的

wintry:belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold 冬天的;寒冷的

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(来源:VOA 编辑:陈丹妮)

 
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