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Also, added to the last post... just in case you might think this weather is mainly on the North American Continent...

from Europe Breitbart News

MADRID AIRPORT CLOSED AS EUROPE SEIZED BY FRIGID WEATHER

A rare, heavy snowfall in central Spain closed Madrid's airport and paralyzed city traffic while several rivers in Germany were frozen as much of Europe endured Siberian conditions Friday.

Russian gas cuts to several European countries this week have aggravated the the effects of the bitter cold which has embraced much of the continent since the end of December...

Elsewhere, however, the freezing conditions caused widespread disruption and difficulty.

At Madrid's Barajas airport, Europe's fourth busiest, all four runways were closed for over four hours because of the snow and low visibility, disrupting the travel plans of thousands of people, Spain's national airport authority AENA said...

Nearly 400 kilometres (250 miles) of traffic jams and dozens of road accidents were reported in and around the Spanish capital.

"Traffic is very difficult in the centre of Spain, many roads are cut especially in the Madrid region where it is recommended not to drive," a spokesman for the interior ministry's traffic management agency DGT told AFP.

Several centimetres (inches) of snow accumulated in Madrid as temperatures in the region dropped to as low as minus six degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit)...

Across the border in France, air, rail and road traffic began to return to normal in the region around the southern port of Marseille after two days of disruption caused by heavy snow, which had paralysed the city on Thursday...

In Germany, the death toll from the cold snap rose to three and several rivers were frozen over, blocking ship traffic, authorities said.

Drift ice covered 80 to 90 percent of the surface of the river Elbe from Doemnitz to the Germany's main port of Hamburg in the north, a spokeswoman for the Water and Shipping Office said.

Some barges had to be freed late Thursday with industrial ice breakers.

Germany is experiencing one of its coldest winters of the past 100 years, with the mercury dropping as low as minus 34.6 degrees Celsius (minus 30.3 degrees Fahrenheit) in the mountains in the south...