
The usually sun-drenched holiday destinations in Germany, Croatia, Italy, Corsica and Serbia are all feeling the chill thanks to the freak cold snap.
Beaches at numerous coastal resorts - where tourists flock to escape the British weather - have been wiped out by freak snow storms.
But the cold weather didn't stop Orthodox Russian Christians taking cold dips in freezing temperatures as part of a celebration of the Epiphany.

Bikini-clad women and brave, topless men dunked themselves underwater in various locations across Europe as the continent turned icy cold.
In Eastern Christianity, the feast of Epiphany commemorates the Baptism of Jesus.
The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the holiday according to the Julian calendar, and many took part in events in Vladivostok, Russia, Belarus and Serbia.
People in the 'sunshine island' of Majorca woke up to find a blanket thick snow had left the isle looking more like the mountains of the Alps than the Med.
Snow even fell in the island's capital Palma, which normally enjoys January temperatures of up to 18C.

Schools on the Costa Blanca, home to popular resorts including Torrevieja, Alicante, and Benidorm, were closed this morning because of the heavy snow that had fallen overnight.
The snow is the heaviest that has been seen in Alicante since 1983.
Spain's Met Office has issued an alert for adverse weather conditions, especially for the southeast peninsular and areas near Castilla-La Mancha and Aragon.
Temperatures have dropped across the mainland, with frost and minus ten degrees in the mountain areas, and areas of southern Valencia and northern Alicante have seen up to ten inches (25cm) of snow in 24 hours.
The unlikely arctic conditions are down to a cold weather system sweeping in from Siberia.
The weather system has already brought bitterly cold conditions to countries including Greece, Serbia, Macedonia and Turkey, putting the lives of thousands of people under threat.
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