Thursday 30 November 2017

Snow & Highways Update (2)

Please note below the latest information received from the highways services section relating to gritting/salting and road clearance measures.

Also included is the latest weather forecast and emergency and non-emergency contact details:


Please find below a summary of the attached winter maintenance planned action.  

Date 30.11.17pm


All High Pennines priority 1 routes

Continued gritting duties from 1200hrs through the afternoon and into the evening

All Low Pennines priority 1 routes

Continued gritting duties from 1100hrs through the afternoon and into the evening

All Central priority 1 routes

Continued gritting duties from 0900hrs through the afternoon and into the evening

All Coastal priority 1 routes

Continued gritting duties from 0900hrs through the afternoon and into the evening

Date 01.12.17am


All High Pennines priority 1 routes

Standby 0400 hrs

All Low Pennines priority 1 routes

Standby 0400 hrs

All Central priority 1 routes

Standby 0400 hrs

All Coastal priority 1 routes

Standby 0400 hrs

Today’s Forecast

This afternoon will continue to be cold and windy with wintry showers, some heavy. Snow is possible to low levels from time to time. The odd rumble of thunder possible too.

Tonight will remain windy with clear spells and further wintry showers. However, the level to which snow will fall will tend to rise through the course of the night. Not as cold as it was last night.

Sunny intervals and a further few showers tomorrow, the showers wintry over high ground. However, it is expected to turn cloudier during the afternoon. A little less cold.

Wintry showers this afternoon and overnight will make RSTs very erratic. The snow level will tend to rise through the evening and night - see tables. A cold night with RSTs below zero. High confidence in the showery scenario, but low confidence the shower distribution and minimum RSTs.

Saturday will be a rather cloudy day, and there will be the chance of rain, mainly later in the day. There will be patchy rain for a time overnight, but it should become dry later. Sunday should be dry and bright and Sunday night will be dry with clear spells. Monday will be dry with bright spells. It will be quite a breezy day.

Next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are likely to be often dry with gentle westerly winds. There will be a risk of some local mist or fog in the nights and mornings but there should also be some bright spells too. Later in the week, it may become breezier and wetter for a time. Just a slight risk of another significant cold spell developing from the north at the end of the week.

DCC Service Requests

Non-emergency service requests should be made through our website at http://www.durham.gov.uk/article/1160 or by email at help@durham.gov.uk

All emergency service requests should be made by calling telephone number 03000 261000. This telephone number is staffed 24 hours, 7 days a week

Weather Updates

To keep up to date with the latest Met Office forecast at the following link:


Useful Information

Please see our website for further useful information, including:

Winter Maintenance Policy – details the service levels of where and when the Council will provide Winter Maintenance. http://www.durham.gov.uk/winterserviceplan