A sign post is covered with ice and snow on the Saentis mountain at 2,502 metres above sea level, in Switzerland.[CCTV.com]

Snowfall, the first of the season, blankets the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane, Poland. More than 150,000 houses in northeastern Poland are without power and planes could not land in Warsaw after a bout of winter weather hit the country.[CCTV.com]