After unusually warm start to season, snow brings traffic jams to parts of Croatia and Austria

A blanket of snow introduced roads to a standstill in Croatia, southern Austria, and Slovenia.

Croatia introduced a ban on lorries with trailers within the mountainous Lika and Gorski Kotar areas and likewise diminished velocity limits and closed lanes and stretches of the A1 and A6 motorways.

There was heavy rainfall in additional southern elements of Croatia that have been affected by the nice and cozy southerly scirocco wind.

In southern Austria, a recent fall of 10-20 cm of snow created half-metre drifts, bringing down bushes and disrupting energy provides. Greater than 10,000 households have been with out energy and there have been additionally highway closures.

Zell Pfarre, near the border with Slovenia, noticed a few of the highest snowfalls.

In Slovenia itself, Ljubljana’s morning rush hour changed into a slush hour as scores of lorries grew to become caught on snow-covered roads.

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