A wintry cold blast that has already triggered snow in a wide area of Europewill spark outbreaks of heavy snow in the west by midweek.Much of France will be subject to snow, as will areas as far-flung of northernSpain and eastern Great Britain, between Tuesday and Thursday. Up to 6 inchesof snow will blanket Paris by Thursday, for instance.
Locally, snow will fall heavily, bringing disruption to air and ground traffic.
Recent days have had up to a foot of new snow from eastern Scotland tonortheastern England, owing mostly to an abnormally cold, damp wind flow offthe North Sea.
On Monday, new snowfall of 10 inches mantled Poprad, Slovakia, as a wintrystorm tracked across central Europe into eastern Europe.
By AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews
