Nation sees record cold snap after snow

MADRID — Much of Spain struggled Tuesday in the aftermath of a massive snowfall that hardened into ice amid a record cold snap that turned streets and roads into safety hazards in areas unaccustomed to extreme winters.

Overnight temperatures were the coldest since at least 2001 and dropped in some places to the lowest since 1982, according to the Spanish weather agency AEMET.

The town of Bello, in the northeastern Teruel province, registered a temperature of minus 13.7 F, and the town of Molina de Aragon, in the central Guadalajara province, was only a tenth of a degree warmer.

In Madrid and the capital’s surrounding region, home to 6.6 million people, thermometers plummeted to up to minus 3.2 F.