A street covered in snow in Paris on January 5, 2026. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
Icy temperatures plunged swathes of Europe into a second day of travel chaos on Tuesday, January 6, with weather-related accidents causing six deaths from the continent's bitterest cold snap this winter so far. Five of those deaths since the mercury dropped on Monday were in France alone, while a woman died in Bosnia as heavy snow and rain sparked floods and power outages across the Balkans.
Paris's two airports, Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly, were to cancel many flights early Wednesday to allow ground crews to clear snow from runways and de-ice planes. Forty percent of flights at Charles de Gaulle were to be scrapped, and 25% at Orly.
In Britain, the mercury plunged to -12.5°C overnight Monday-Tuesday in Norfolk, eastern England, while temperatures below -10°C across the Netherlands brought trains to a standstill on Tuesday morning. "Last night was the coldest night of the winter so far," Britain's Met Office said, with nearly all of the United Kingdom on alert for snow and ice and more snowfall expected.
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