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With snow drifts, black ice and train cancellations, the onset of dramatic winter weather causes considerable traffic disruptions in many places in the north and center of Germany. Deutsche Bahn discontinued numerous connections in local and long-distance traffic, between Hamburg and Hanover and Hamburg and the State of Northrhine Westphalia, where many parts of the highway have been closed to traffic. IMAGES of the highway covered with snow and of the Dortmund train station in the State of Northrhine Westphalia
France's southern city of Montpellier woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday morning. As heavy snowstorms lash France's southern Hérault department, snowploughs are deployed to clear the roads and free paralysed traffic. IMAGES
Cars are bumper to bumper on the A63 motorway near Bordeaux, as July and August holiday goers cross paths on the way to their vacations on what Bison Futé labels 'black Saturday'. More than 1,000 kilometres of cumulative traffic jams are recorded for this day of crossover. IMAGES
The rising waters of the Bei River have nearly engulfed lampposts in flood-hit Qingyuan city in southern China, with the government issuing highest its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area. Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong province in recent days, swelling rivers and causing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people. IMAGES
Increasingly heavy snowfall is complicating traffic on Wednesday in the north of France, where heavy freezing rain fell in the morning and leaving roads with icy conditions. SOUNDBITE
Normandy and the D-Day landing beaches awoke to a thin layer of snow (3 to 5 cm), causing some disruption to transport and a lack of traders in the markets, while France experienced one of its coldest days for six years. IMAGES
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