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10:59am Monday 14th January 2013 in News

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Jon Fraser, Worcestershire County Council Highways Customer and Community Manager:

"The weather forecasts anticipated a busy weekend for the gritting crews and it turned out that way.  All of the designated routes, which take in around 800 miles worth of  road across the county, were covered on Saturday, Sunday and during the early hours of today. It's been one of the busiest weekends of the season so far.

"To date we've used around 2,000 tonnes of the salt we had in stock at the start of winter, which leaves us still with about 11,000 tonnes in the depots.

"It does look like it's going to remain cold for the rest of this week and, as usual, we'll be monitoring things around the clock with gritters on standby to roll out when needed. I expect the teams will be out and about over the next few days.

"As ever, we'd urge motorists to take care as they are out and about on the roads when freezing temperatures bite. The message is still the same but not less important – don't assume it's safe to travel at normal speeds just because you think it's been treated with grit. Always temper driving and respect the conditions."

Grit runs covering all designated primary and secondary routes across Worcestershire were carried out from 6pm on Saturday, 2.30pm on Sunday and 3am today.

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Paul Michealwaite of netweather.tv, which is based in Pershore, says Worcestershire has seen the worst of the snow for the time being. Wintry showers will continue today and overnight, with brighter spells from tomorrow and it's going to stay cold.

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PEOPLE in Worcestershire have woken up to a blanket of snow this morning.

The Met Office predicted between two and five centimetres (1-2ins) of the white stuff was set to fall across the county overnight.

Worcestershire County Council's fleet of gritters were out treating roads from 2pm yesterday as temperatures plunged to -2.

However, it seems the snow could be short lived with heavy rain due to hit the county from mid-morning.

For the latest gritting news, visit worcestershire.gov.uk/gritting or the council’s Twitter account @worcscc.

  Do you have pictures of the snow where you live? Send them to wenphoto@worcesternews.co.uk</strong></li>

 

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