
Snowy weather and heavy rain have continued to cause problems across Europe. In Denmark, snow and rain are being replaced by biting frost, with icy days making salt roads difficult. Police in East Jutland have asked people to avoid unnecessary movement.
Residents of riverside towns in England were inundated by rain that swept across Europe this week, as floods disrupted train services. A powerful storm with damaging winds flooded more than 1,000 homes and businesses and left several communities under brown muddy water, officials said.
In Gloucester in southwest England, buildings and cars were submerged as roads turned into streams, farmland flooded and boats were torn from their moorings.
The ground was already saturated after storm Henk hit with heavy rain. Hundreds of flood warnings are now in place and the Environment Agency says the impact from flooding could last another five days.
Rising flood waters have threatened the collapse of dams in parts of northern Germany hit by several days of heavy rain. Germany has mobilized volunteers from the civil defense services. Millions of sandbags have been distributed in flood-hit areas to protect settlements and fires.
In a village in Lower Saxony that was hit particularly hard, help has arrived from France. French Civil Security workers traveled 1,200 kilometers south of Paris to monitor the situation as part of the EU's disaster response cooperation system.
Temperatures will drop significantly in France over the next few years. Residents of the Pas-de-Calais region, which has been affected by the floods, are worried about the cold. If floodwaters don't recede quickly enough, frost can cause extensive damage to their damp homes.