PARIS – Eiffel Tower workers used a torch to melt the ice that gathers on its surfaces, and snow blocked roads and stopped trains and school buses on Wednesday in northern France.
Against the backdrop of European cold, areas of Normandy and Brittany that were not used in such icy conditions closed the motorways due to a lack of snow removal equipment. In parts of the Paris region, local authorities stopped school buses and urged parents to keep their children at home.
Snow covered the French capital and froze the Eiffel Tower.
“When the negative temperatures return, my floors are partially covered with ice! To get rid of it, we have to use a torch, because the ice control salt is too corrosive for the metal “, wrote on Twitter the monument, which was closed to the public for months due to coronavirus restrictions.
Parts of central and northern Europe, as well as the United Kingdom, have been engulfed by a cold front since the weekend. Heavy snow confused traffic and stuck drivers in Germany and the Czech Republic.
Some took advantage of the frosty climates. Cross-country skiers slid over the Charles Bridge in Prague, the children stayed in the usually snow-free park in the Belgian capital, Brussels, and the deep winter frost aroused the Dutch national obsession with ice skating.