In Poland, where the temperature had plummeted to minus 35
Celsius, eight people froze to death. That took the toll there so far this winter to 199, police said.
In Romania, where the mercury was forecast to fall to minus 25C over the weekend, five more people died. A total of 55 Romanians have perished this winter.
In France, where there were snow warnings across the two thirds of the country, a homeless man died of a heart attack and the airport in the second largest city, Lyon, was brought to a standstill by snow.
Up to 1,200 people were forced to spend the night huddling under blankets in the airport when most flights were cancelled. Airport traffic resumed this morning but trains and buses in surrounding regions remained at a halt.
Heavy snow also disrupted road and rail traffic further east and south in southern France, Switzerland and northern Italy, cutting off some Alpine villages altogether.
Southern Switzerland was buried under a metre of snow after the heaviest falls in 20 years, the meteorological office reported
In eastern Spain a bus overturned in a blizzard, killing five people and injuring 30, police said. More severe snow was forecast for the weekend in the Valencia region where the crash happened.