Heavy snowfall disrupts lives in France, Germany and UK 

Cold weather and heavy snowfall badly affected routine lives in France, Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) and forced authorities to close schools, reported 24HD News Channel on Sunday.
Several European countries, including the United Kingdom, issued a Yellow Warning to their citizens.
The Met Office predicted that dozens of counties, including Scotland and Northern England likely to receive one foot of snowfall.
The Met Office further predicted that the severe cold wave will be intensified across the United Kingdom till January 15, 2026.
The disruption follows a cold snap in recent days in the UK.
Temperatures dropped to a low of -10.9 degrees centigrade in the high hills of Shap in Cumbria, northwest England, on Sunday night.
There was then heavy snowfall in some regions, with Tomintoul, near Inverness in northeast Scotland, recording the highest amount, 52 centimeters (20 inches), as of 10:00 am (1000 GMT) on Monday.
“Overnight into Tuesday temperatures will once again fall below freezing for much of the country, with the lowest temperatures overlying snow possibly dipping to -12C,” the Met Office said.
A total of 212 schools were closed in Northern Ireland on Monday, the authorities said, with dozens of schools also shut in Scotland, Wales, and northern England.
Flights were canceled at airports including Liverpool in northwest England, Aberdeen and Inverness in northeast Scotland, and Belfast in Northern Ireland.
At France’s major Paris airports of Charles de Gaulle and Orly, heavy snowfall forced airlines to reduce their flights by 15 percent.
Some 250 snowplows were on standby at the two airports, French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot told a press conference, adding there would likely be “cancellations and some delays.”
Local, regional, and international railways across the UK were also affected.
Meanwhile, Germany is bracing for a major snowfall this weekend and the anticipation has forced the cancellation of the ruling party's first meeting of the year, school closures and flight delays as residents await the worst.
The German Weather Service DWD has forecast strong snowstorms to hit the country overnight, particularly in eastern and central Germany as well as between the northern cities of Bremen and Hamburg.
A DWD meteorologist described the expected weather as "extreme," with some parts of Germany set to be hit by up to 20 centimetres of snow on Friday.