Yellow warning for snow and ice across parts of Lincolnshire
It's thought it could lead to difficult driving conditions
Last updated 19th Nov 2024
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for snow and ice across parts of the Lincolnshire Coast.
It follows snowfall last night which led to some travel disruption earlier today and low temperatures.
It means there's no rest for the gritters tonight as it's thought what's left of the snow may turn to ice across Lincolnshire and Newark.
That could lead to difficult driving conditions this evening.
Darrell Redford is Lincolnshire county council's network resilience manager believes they coped well overnight despite there being more snow than expected:
"Luckily it came in very late and night/ early in the morning so there was not many people on the roads.
"So we let it fall (the snow) and then when it finished we went out ploughing and salting again.
"When we are ploughing a dropping the salt it got our network open".
Several other warnings for snow and ice are in force across the UK, with the Met Office advising that vehicles could be stranded, power cuts may occur and rural areas could be cut off.
By Tuesday afternoon, more than 200 school closures had been reported, with around 140 recorded in Wales.
Snowfall was also widely reported, with 12cm of lying snow recorded at Watnall, Nottinghamshire on Tuesday morning as an Arctic airmass influenced the UK's weather.
Thousands of train passengers suffered disruption due to the weather on Tuesday morning.
By 11am on Tuesday, some 64 out of a total of 120 services planned by East Midlands Railway were cancelled or delayed by at least half an hour, according to the trains.im punctuality and reliability website.