Monday, December 29, 2014

Europe Snowstorm Moves East After Burying France to the Balkans

By , Senior Meteorologist
December 29,2014; 10:08PM,EST
 
 
A storm will continue to spread rain and disruptive snow farther to the east across southern and eastern Europe through Wednesday.
The storm has already delivered rain and wet snow to the United Kingdom Friday night and parts of France, Germany and Switzerland on Saturday.
In France, approximately 15,000 vehicles were stranded in the Savoy Prefecture late Saturday due to heavy snow, reports Lameteo. Savoy is situated in far eastern France near the border with Switzerland and Italy.
Additionally, a man was killed Saturday when his car slide off of a road into a ravine near Isère, France.
Snow totals on Saturday reached 3 cm in Brussels, Belgium, 6 cm in Frankfurt, Germany, and 10 cm in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
As the storm continued to move southeastward, snow fell from the higher elevations of northern Italy into the Balkan Peninsula on Sunday. Heavy snow fell across parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Romania.
While the snow will be a boost for skiing in Europe, it will lead to travel problems for holiday travelers as flight delays are likely and highway travel will be slowed.

The heaviest snow from the storm is expected to fall in the Dinaric Alps and from eastern Romania into Moldova and east-central Ukraine into Monday night. The combination of snow and wind in these areas will make roads impassible in some regions.
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Snow amounts of 15-30 cm (6-12 inches) will be common across eastern Europe and some of the hardest-hit areas will pick up in excess of 30 cm (12 inches) of snow. Wind gusts of 30-65 kph (20-40 mph) will lead to blowing and drifting of snow.
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The storm will move northeast spreading the heaviest snowfall into eastern Ukraine and southern Russia Monday night into Wednesday.
On the southern side of this storm rain will fall across much of Turkey before mixing with and changing to snow in the north on Tuesday. Some of the higher elevations could see accumulating snowfall before the storm winds down Wednesday.
AccuWeather.com Meteorologists Eric Leister, Adam Douty and Alex Sosnowski contributed content to this story.

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