Ireland

Snow traps tourist buses in Sally Gap

Tourists had to be brought down from the Wicklow Mountains yesterday when sightseeing buses got stuck in heavy snow, according to local eyewitnesses.

Snowless Alps?

Alps hit by two-decade decline in snowfall

PARIS — A forthcoming study has added to worries that the Alpine ski industry will be badly affected by global warming, the British weekly New Scientist reports.

A "dramatic step-like drop" in the amount of snow falling in the western European mountain chain occurred in the late 1980s and since then snowfall has never recovered, it ... read more

Austria

Tourists cut off by avalanches following heavy snowfall in Austria

Hundreds of Britons were among thousands of tourists stranded in western Austria after heavy snowfalls.

The ski resort villages of Lech, Zuers and Stuben have been hit and the Vorarlberg region is covered with snow after more than two feet fell in 24 hours.

Roads from the villages have been closed since midday on Wednesday.

Train Chaos In China

Chaotic rush to board trains in China

GUANGZHOU, China - Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers, some hoisting terrified children or baggage over their heads, pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China.

China counts cost of snowy winter chaos

Over half a million passengers stranded at China train station

BEIJING - Wild winter weather across China left hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.