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Europe was shivering under a blanket of snow after heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures hit the continent this winter
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Snow covered central Netherlands including Amsterdam with a 5-6 cm layer of snow causing a record 1003 km of traffic jams
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Sub-zero temperatures left the streets of Zurich, Switzerland snow laden
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Snow covered cars in Ingoldstadt, Germany where roads were forced to close amid plunging temperatures and icy conditions
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The Tuileries gardens in central Paris, France was covered in a blanket of snow after being the city underwent days of snow flurries
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More snow is expected in coming days with low temperatures in already snow covered areas such as Overwiesenthal, south eastern Germany
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Streets across Europe were covered in snow and slush like shown here in Zagreb, Croatia
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The extreme cold frosted public transportation like this bus window in Bucharest, Romania
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Snow cut power to thousands of houses in South Wales, Britain and left thousands of passengers stranded at Heathrow airport in London due to grounded flights
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The death toll from Eastern Europe's freezing temperatures rose to more than 220, many of them homeless people tightening its grip on European cities including Stockholm, Sweden
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The weather forced hundreds of schools to shut down across Sweden after temperatures dropped overnight making roads unsafe to travel on
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The wintry conditions in Paris caused delays and cancellations on the transport network prompting the weather authority to issue severe weather warnings
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In Kosovo, dozens of villages around the town of Pec were blocked following three days of snowfall