A little bit of snow can turn networks upside down in countries of moderate weather which don’t want to invest in snow-proof systems for those “few days”. Here are some fresh pictures and screenshots.
The red nodes show motorway sections with lower than 10 km/h traffic speed (soure: fileindex.nl)
The Dutch Railway has a beautiful winter website, although train times are often unavailable (source: ns.nl)
Real-time availability of rail infrastructure - there are significant delays and cancellations on the red sections 
(source: ProRail)
I was a lucky bastard that my budapest flight was not canceled (photo: Daniel Sparing)
Winter traffic is a cover story (source: nu.nl)
Double deck intercity train passing Delft Zuid (photo: Daniel Sparing)
My bike enjoys winter weather in Delft (photo: Daniel Sparing)
A bit of winter chaos has advantages, too: for the following one week it provides ample resource for small talk topics and water cooler conversations.
Update: my friend Hanna tells me that their airport in Helsinki, maybe not surprisingly, is much better equipped for handling snow and ice. Also, Ask the Pilot’s Patrick Smith explains that winter flight delays happen because of delays not in the air but on the ground.
