<br/>Cold weather has wreaked havoc in eastern Europe, with temperatures dipping to minus 35 degrees Celsius in some areas, killing dozens of people and disrupting schools and traffic flow. <br/><br/>From the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, arctic temperatures and fresh heavy snowfall swept over the region, hitting power, water and food supplies.<br/><br/>Meteorologists have forecast a few more days of abnormally cold weather before temperatures start to rise.<br/><br/>In Poland, where temperatures fell as low as minus 35C, at least 16 people have died in the past three days.<br/><br/>Six people froze to death in the Czech Republic and 11 in Romania. Two homeless people died in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.<br/><br/>In Ukraine, temperatures plunged towards minus 30C. The cold has killed 256 Ukrainians since December 18, many of them homeless.<br/><br/>Cold weather has claimed nearly 200 lives in Poland since the onset of winter in November, 70 of them since the start of January.<br/><br/>Latvian authorities said the average temperature in the Baltic republic last week was minus 15C, 19C below normal. Estonia and Lithuania reported similar data.