The West Midlands city of Birmingham is blanketed in snow as Storm Goretti hits the UK, with forecasters predicting snow of up to 30 centimetres in some areas and disruptions to road and rail transport.
Roads have been closed in Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire with the area blanketed in snow.
British forecasters have issued weather warnings for severe winds, large amounts of snowfall and freezing temperatures.
In France, some 380,000 households lost power, the vast majority in the northern Normandy region, the Enedis power provider said, while some 65,000 households lost electricity in Britain.