Global storm activity

Today's weather will be relatively mild for January.

On Saturday and Sunday, however, there will be changes and the winter will return with full force, according to the medium-term weather forecast.

After the heavy snowfall and the sharp fall of temperatures, the snow is now expected to gradually fall into the rain and in some places there is danger of icing streets.

Be especially careful when you drive.

This evening is expected the first significant snowfall for 2018. This is shown by the data of the National Institute of Metrology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Cold, rain and snow all over the country in the coming days. The sharp drop in temperatures will begin on Friday, NOVA reports.

The cold will continue in the coming days. At the end of the week, temperatures throughout the day will be negative, and in places will not exceed minus 5 degrees.

Ten people have been killed in heavy snowfalls in central and eastern China over the past three days, TASS reported, referring to the authorities.

More than 560,000 people were affected by the heavy snowfall and ice in the provinces of Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and Jiangsu. Approximately 200 people were evacuated from the disaster areas.

The winter storm in the northeast of the United States caused 17 deaths, Nova Television reported. Moreover, the natural disaster caused chaos in the movement. Nearly 4,000 flights were canceled due to the snow.

There are three victims the storm Eleonor, which struck Western Europe, the news agencies reported.

Dozens have been wounded by hurricane winds that have also suffered serious material damage in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands. Hundreds of thousands of households are without electricity.

Today it will be mostly cloudy with snow and rainfall mainly in Western and Central Bulgaria, snow in the high fields and the Pre-Balkan region and rain in the rest of the regions. No significant snow or rainfall is expected, the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) told FOCUS News Agency. There will be light to moderate northwestern wind.

Thousands of households are without electricity because of the storm Elinor, which has reached the UK. The most severely affected are Northern Ireland, the northern regions of England and the southwest coast of Scotland. In some places the speed of the winds reaches 130 km / h. Streets in several Northern Ireland villages are flooded, there are closed roads because of fallen trees.

Dreams of a white Christmas have turned into a nightmare in the northeastern U.S. city of Erie after a storm dumped a record-breaking 1.5 meters of snow in a 48-hour period, forcing officials to declare an emergency.