Inghilterra e Europa sotto la neve

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Snow brings disruption to parts of Europe

Thousands of schools have been closed across the UK

Severe winter weather has brought dangerous conditions and transport disruption to parts of Europe.
Temperatures as low as -22C (-8F) have left 122 dead in Poland this winter and the main river, the Vistula, has frozen over, causing fears of flooding.
In the UK, thousands of schools are closed and travellers have been hit by major delays after heavy snowfall affected large parts of the country.
In the Swiss Alps avalanches have killed at least seven people.
Western France has issued a weather alert for 14 regions hit by heavy snow.
Extreme or severe weather warnings are still in place across the UK, which is in the grip of its longest cold snap for almost 30 years.

UK travel chaos

Its hospitals have implemented major incident plans to deal with the extreme weather.
On Tuesday up to 20cm (8in) of snow fell in parts of Scotland and northern England, causing travel chaos for millions of people.
Another 40cm (16in) has been forecast in some areas as the snowfalls spread from north to south.
Gatwick airport was closed on Wednesday morning, while Heathrow, Birmingham, Luton and Southampton were open but suffering delays and cancellations.
Forecasters at the UK's Met Office said the bitterly cold weather was forecast to continue for the next couple of weeks, with further snowfall expected at times.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on people to "look out for neighbours and relatives in need of assistance".

ANALYSIS

France's regional transport centre said secondary roads in several departments, including Brittany, Cotes d'Armor and Finistere, were almost impassable.
"The combination of snow and ice is making movement very difficult," Le Point newspaper quoted officials as saying.
The death toll in Poland has now risen to 122 - most of the dead were reported to have been homeless people.
In Burzyska nad Bugiem, in the east of the country, the army has installed makeshift bridges after flooding and ice split the village in two.
On Tuesday, Swiss rescue teams found the bodies of three skiers - two men and a woman.
They were part of a group caught in an avalanche in the Diemtigtal valley about 40km (25 miles) south of the Swiss capital Bern, on Sunday.
The deaths bring to seven the number of people killed in the disaster.
But in the Netherlands, hundreds of people embraced the chill, taking part in the traditional skating event held on frozen Hanschoter Lake in Utrecht.
The Dutch skating federation said on Tuesday that the shallow lake had frozen to a depth of 12cm (4in), making it safe for skating.

fonte: News.bbc.co.uk