Heavy hailstorms in the Pentadaktylos mountain range caused the motorway between Nicosia and Kyrenia to ice over on Monday night.
A flurry of hailstones in the region left the road under around two centimetres of slush, rendering it undriveable.
As a result, the north’s police closed the road between the Dr Fazil Kucuk roundabout at the south end of Kyrenia and the Bogazi junction on the other side of the mountains at midnight.