More than 400 flights were canceled at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport on Tuesday, already hit by several days of major disruptions with the Netherlands among the worst affected by recent snowfalls in Europe.
"We haven't experienced such extreme weather conditions in years," a spokesperson for the Dutch KLM arm of Air France-KLM, Anoesjka Aspeslagh, told Reuters.
Early on Tuesday, all domestic rail services were suspended in the Netherlands, because of an IT outage exacerbating the problems like frozen points already caused by the adverse weather.
This further compounded existing travel difficulties by air and on the roads, particularly in the busy area around Amsterdam, where problems persisted for longer than in the rest of the country.
High-speed Eurostar trains from Amsterdam to Paris, bound eventually for the UK, were either canceled or running late.
The French capital remained caked in a layer of snow after a fairly heavy snowfall on Monday evening, including for the Ukraine Coalition of the Willing summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron.
French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot urged people to travel as little as possible on the roads and to work from home, with domestic media reporting five traffic accident deaths in crashes linked to the weather.
Snows affected almost every corner of the country on Tuesday, from Berlin in the east to Bonn in the west and from Hamburg to the north to Stuttgart down south.
In Berlin, several thousand households and around 1,000 businesses in the southwest of the city were still without heating and electricity after a sabotage attack on power cables over the weekend.
There were accidents on highways and roads in the poor weather, and some delays to trains and planes, but disruption was comparatively minimal compared to several nearby countries.
Schools were shut for a second day in much of Scotland, which had faced some of the heavier snows across the UK in recent days.
The UK Meteorological Office said winter hazards would continue throughout the week for most of the country. Canals in the capital London were frozen over.
Marham, in Norfolk in southeast England, clocked overnight lows of -12.5 degrees Celsius (9.5 Fahrenheit) heading into Tuesday, the lowest anywhere in the UK to date this winter.
Curated by Marcus Thompson
