Roundup: Crippling cold, snow, power outages hit Europe, wreaking chaos

Roundup: Crippling cold, snow, power outages hit Europe, wreaking chaos

BERLIN, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A powerful winter outbreak is sweeping across Europe, battering more than a dozen countries with heavy snow, freezing rain, and gale-force winds, resulting in fatalities, flight cancellations, and widespread power outages. Read full story

Crippling cold, snow, power outages hit Europe, wreaking chaos

A powerful winter outbreak is sweeping across Europe, battering more than a dozen countries with heavy snow, freezing rain, and gale-force winds, resulting in fatalities, flight cancellations, and widespread power outages, reported Xinhua. HEAVY SNOW, FREEZING COLD The British Met Office on Thursday upgraded its wind warnings for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to the rare red alert, as Storm Goretti evolves into a "weather bomb." The storm cou…