In China and Mongolia, extreme weather conditions left people and vehicles stranded, requiring emergency rescue operations in temperatures down to -25°C.
Severe snowstorms are causing damage in several regions of Europe, the United States and Asia.
In southern Romania, a second wave of snow in less than a week caused serious disturbances.
Some roads near Bucharest were closed, trains suffered significant delays and the capital’s airport even closed one of its runways. Several areas of the country were also left without electricity.
Last week, snow had already forced the closure of roads and highways, the diversion of flights and the closure of ports on the Black Sea. The weather is only expected to improve from this Monday onwards.
In the United States, not the state of Connecticut, residents and authorities prepare for the arrival of the “Calvin” snowstormfollowing criticism of poor cleanup from the last storm in January.
Streets are already being treated with salt, snow plows will operate during the storm and snow will be transported to empty lots to speed up melting.
In China, intense snowstorms accompanied by strong winds hit several northern regions, leaving vehicles and people stranded and requiring the activation of emergency measures.
In the Xinjiang region, very strong gusts caused accumulations of snow on a mountain roadleaving several cars immobilized. Rescue teams had to advance on foot, remove the snow manually and managed to evacuate 11 people to a temporary shelter after several hours of operations.
To Mongolia, the bad weather was even more extremewith very strong winds, visibility of less than 10 meters and temperatures dropping to minus 25 degrees. Incidents of stuck vehicles, missing people and lost animals were recorded.
