SCORES of fights have been cancelled as snow and ice blanket much of Europe.
London's Heathrow airport says it has cancelled about 130 flights on Monday, 10 per cent of the daily total, compared to 20 per cent on Sunday.
Hundreds of schools are closed across Britain.
British domestic trains and Eurostar services from France and Belgium to London have been disrupted.
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at Germany's busiest airport in Frankfurt due to heavy snow.
So far, a total 203 flights have been cancelled for the whole day, following 445 cancellations on Sunday, a spokeswoman for airport operator Fraport said.
All flights were cancelled for several hours late on Sunday afternoon, with many inbound services diverted to other airports.
De-icing operations restarted later on Sunday and traffic slowly resumed on a case-by-case basis.
In Munich, which received 13cm of snow overnight, another 200 flights were cancelled, and long delays were expected.
In northern Germany, slick roads outside Berlin caused a stretch of a major highway to be closed down for the Monday morning commute, and the high-speed train that runs through Brussels from Paris to Germany was experiencing long delays.
Forty per cent of flights were canceled at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris.
Unusually heavy snowfall of almost 50 centimetres in Moscow caused traffic jams on Monday but did not affect flights at city airports, which are well equipped for snowstorms.
The snowfall over the last four days in Moscow exceeded the average for the whole month of January, Moscow Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov said.
"Over the last four days, 50cm of snow has fallen in Moscow. Since the start of the month, 65cm has fallen, while the average for the first month of the year is 42cm," Biryukov said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
He added that street cleaners and snow ploughs had removed 2.5 million cubic metres of snow over the last four days.
On Monday morning rush-hour traffic crawled at an average speed of 30km/h and slowed to 10km/h on some highways, a spokesman for the city transport department told Interfax.
The city's three commercial airports were not affected by the weather.
The Russian weather centre warned of a "very cold" week in European Russia.
In Moscow, temperatures were predicted to fall to minus 19C on Monday night and to minus 21C on Tuesday night.
The most extreme temperatures are predicted in Magadan in Far East Russia, where they could fall to minus 49C, and in central Siberia where they could fall to minus 52C.
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