After a busy day yesterday with continual winter maintenance
action throughout the day in all domains following heavy snow the forecast has
improved today and into tomorrow with only a slight threat of snow in the High
Pennines but sub-zero temperatures across all domains.
Gritting activity in all domains completed this morning
around 09:00 hours with the exception of the High Pennines where we had
requirements to deploy the snow blower and had some final clearance works to do
on some of the worst effected high routes
Please find below a
summary of the attached winter maintenance planned action.
Date
01.12.17pm
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All High Pennines priority 1 routes
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Standby 1600 hrs
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All Low Pennines priority 1 routes
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Standby 1600 hrs
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All Central priority 1 routes
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Standby 1600 hrs
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All Coastal priority 1 routes
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Standby 1600 hrs
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Date
02.12.17am
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All High Pennines priority 1 routes
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Standby 0400 hrs
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All Low Pennines priority 1 routes
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Standby 0400 hrs
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All Central priority 1 routes
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Standby 0400 hrs
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All Coastal priority 1 routes
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Standby 0400 hrs
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Today’s Forecast
Cold and
windy today with sunny intervals and showers for a time, these wintry for a
time in places. Cloudier later though with patchy light rain and perhaps a
little sleet or wet snow on high ground.
Staying
cloudy and damp this evening and for a time tonight with patchy light rain and
a little upland sleet or wet snow. Drier later though with one or two clear
spells. Not as cold as last night.
Tomorrow
looks set to be mostly cloudy with the chance of a few spots of rain at first.
However, a few bright or sunny interludes are possible too. Feeling less cold.
A chilly
night - cloud amounts will be variable, and as such, confidence is low on the
min RSTs and hazard risk as depicted in the tables.
Sunday is
expected to be a dry day, perhaps with some bright spells. There may be the odd
spot of drizzle or light rain on Sunday night, but this should have cleared by
Monday, which will be a breezy but largely dry day. Monday night will be dry
with clear periods, and the dry weather will continue into
Tuesday which will
should have sunny intervals.
Wednesday
is likely to be a mild and mostly dry day but with a chance of wetter and
windier conditions spreading from the west later on. An unsettled spell of
weather is then expected for a time around
Thursday next week with the
potential for widespread rain and strong winds. It is then favoured to become
chillier from the north-west for the end of next week as the rain clears
eastwards. However, confidence in the forecast falls rather low by then.
