CHAOS AS WINTER HITS HARD

STORM Caroline made her presence felt late last week with winds of up to 145km/h.

But it’s the sting in her tail, Snowbomb Sunday, that caused blizzard conditions, road chaos and up to 30cm of snow in some places. The heaviest snowfall in four years in Britain caused travel mayhem.

Police forces in worsthit Wales and central England urged motorists not to travel unless “absolutely necessary” as they dealt with surging calls.

A spokesman for the Highways England agency said there had been road incidents “all over the place”.

On the continent more than 300 flights were cancelled at Frankfurt Germany’s busiest airport, stranding hundreds of passengers.

.In France, a ferry with more than 300 people on board ran aground in high winds in Calais, interrupting traffic in one of Europe’s busiest passenger ports but causing no injuries.

In the US a man was killed by a downed power line as a winter storm shrouded many southern states in snow.

An abandoned car is parked at the roadside after skidding into a rock in Derbyshire, northern England, at the weekend. Inset: A snow-covered wallaby at Cape May County Park Zoo in New Jersey in the US. Pictures: AFP/AP