Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, landed during a snowstorm in Manchester, N.H., Thursday. The trip marks the president’s second visit in about three months to New Hampshire, which he easily carried in 2008.
An aerial view shows the Les Diablerets ski region of western Switzerland, where rescuers searched for two skiers believed to have been buried in an avalanche Wednesday.
A man shoveled snow from a street in Cetinje, Montenegro, Thursday. Large quantities of snow that fell in Montenegro paralyzed the country and brought road and railway traffic to a halt.
Men removed snow from the roof of a house in the village of Zhur, Kosovo.
Shepherd Markus Nyffeler walked with his flock through a snow-covered field near Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday. Mr. Nyffeler has been a professional herdsman for the past 20 years and owns hundreds of sheep.
A police helicopter dropped supplies for vessels stuck in the frozen Danube River near Smederevo, Serbia, Monday. Responders worked to evacuate sailors stuck on icebound boats on the river. (
A woman waited for the bus amid heavy snowfall in Pristina, Kosovo, Monday. Rescuers pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by an avalanche that killed at least nine people, including her parents, in the village of Restelica.
A woman looks out a bus in Bucharest on February 2, 2012. Frigid temperatures have gripped Europe in the last week, with the mercury reaching as low as 35 degrees Celsius below zero. After what had been a relatively mild winter, the sudden cold caught many unprepared. Eastern Europe is hardest hit, with over 100 deaths in Ukraine, and with over 11,000 people in remote villages cut off by snow in Serbia. Most of the fatalities recorded have been homeless people found frozen to death outside, and emergency tents with hot meals have been set up to help them in several affected countries. Russia and Poland are mobilizing help for the homeless. Travel in Romania has been chaos as a blizzard hampered efforts to clear both rails and roads. Recorded temperatures in Italy were the lowest in 27 years.
People walk on frozen Black Sea waters next to an ice-covered dam in Constanta, Romania on February 1, 2012.
A woman walked across a snow-covered square in the center of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
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A lion cub plays with a snowball at the Belgrade Zoo on Feb. 5, 2012. (Alexa Stankovic//AFP/Getty Images)
Photos from inside the deadly European cold snap that’s killed hundreds
Temperatures touched new lows in parts of Europe, including Switzerland, which reported the mercury dipping to minus 35.1 Celsius overnight in the eastern Graubuenden canton, and the Czech Republic, where the town of Kvilda recorded a winter low of minus 39.4 Celsius. More photos here. (AFP/Getty Images;Reuters)
