A competitor's beard is covered with ice and snow during a speed skating race in Techendorf, AustriaReuters
A competitor's beard is covered with ice and snow during a speed skating race in Techendorf, AustriaReutersA boy sits in front of a car covered in ice in Versoix, near GenevaReutersAn ice sculpture on a pond near the village of Dobra Voda, Kosovo.ReutersA man smokes a cigerette as he walks in temperatures around -15C in MoscowReutersA houseboat is partially submerged in the frozen Zwanenburgwal canal in AmsterdamReutersA man exercises near the frozen Tbilisi reservoir in Tbilisi, GeorgiaReutersA man walks past a house that was destroyed when a dam wall broke and flooded the village of Biserm in southern BulgariaReutersPassersby go to rescue a man who fell into a partially frozen lagoon in VeniceReutersA woman and her son make a snowman in St Peter's Square outside the Vatican in RomeReutersRome's Colosseum hit by heaviest snowstorm in 24 yearsReuters
The coldest February in decades continues its icy grip across Europe.
As heavy snow and record-low temperatures bring parts of the continent to a standstill, International Business Times UK takes a look at some of the best images from the big chill.