Snow returned to London for the first time this winter Saturday night with travel disruptions lingering into Sunday.

A total of 3 inches (8 cm) of snow whitened London’s Heathrow Airport Saturday night with visibility reduced below a half of a mile (800 meters) for a time.

This was London’s first snow event of not only the winter, but since December 2010.

The snow forced officials to cancel half of the 1,300 scheduled flights at Heathrow, according to the BBC. Some train service has also been disrupted.

Overnight Saturday, drivers of hundreds of vehicles became stranded on the M25 (the highway that loops around London) and the M40 (the stretch of road that connects London with the city of Birmingham).

The snow in London marked the latest blow from Mother Nature during what has been an extreme week of wintry weather throughout Europe.

Snow made a rare appearance last Friday in Rome, where afternoon high temperatures typically warm to 53 degrees (F, 12 degrees C) this time of year.

The same snowmaker in Rome dumped substantial snow on southeastern Europe to close out the week. Snowdrifts as high as 43 inches (110 cm) buried the center of Sarajevo, Bosnia, according to CNN.

It was not just snow that made weather headlines across eastern Europe, but also the brutal cold that claimed 122 lives alone in Ukraine.