Winter arrives across Europe
Fouling traffic and tempers, heavy snow fell today on much of Europe that had been deprived of anything more than a dusting for weeks, giving Rome a rare winter blanket and shutting down the main airport in Montenegro.
Deep snow in Poland stranded Ukraine’s new president, Viktor Yushchenko, in Krakow and forced him to cancel a much-anticipated trip to the European Parliament in Strasbourg where he was to make his first post-election address.