In fact, so cold, freezing a portion of the Black Sea near the Romanian coast and the snow falls on Croatian islands in the Adriatic Sea.
With the temperature reached -32.5 degrees Celsius to 16 cities in Bulgaria recorded the lowest temperature since 100 years ago.
See the photos due to extreme weather, the Black Sea freezes at this link.
Highest number of fatalities recorded in the Ukraine. More than 122 people died. Of these, around 78 people were found dead in the street.
Extreme cold weather that froze almost all of Europe is expected to peak in February. The situation worsened with the decreasing supply will oil and gas from the main supplier, Russia.
"We are confident the weather will change in mid-February, but not be warmer. February will be the coldest times," said meteorologist Leon Brown from the Weather Channel in the UK, as reported by Reuters.
Russian cold polar air from the flank area of high pressure to prevent warm air across the Atlantic to Europe. As a result, during the last 10 days the European experience with the extreme winter temperatures well below zero degrees Celsius.