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Warning as snow returns to region
Saturday 2nd January 2010, 2:00PM GMT.
Snow was returning to the West Midlands today as 2010 starts as 2009 ended – with no end in sight to the freezing temperatures.
Wintry showers were expected today and tomorrow and daytime temperatures throughout next week will drop to as low as -6 (21F).
Forecasters today warned the first fortnight of the New Year is likely to remain bitterly cold, with temperatures barely breaking freezing and wind chill making it feel more like -13C (9F) by the middle of next week.
Weatherman Matt Dobson said: “The first 10 days of this month will be exceptionally cold for much of the UK.
Unusual
“It will remain below freezing in the West Midlands – and in parts of Scotland they will drop to around – 15C (5F).
“This kind of persistent cold is unusual compared to what we have been used to over the past 15 or 20 years.”
The Arctic weather has already brought substantial New Year snowfalls to the North East and light snow could settle in the West Midlands in the next 24 hours, bringing some traffic disruption and problems for amateur football and rugby leagues.
A pitch inspection was this morning taking place at the Banks’s Stadium, where Walsall were today due to play Charlton Athletic.
Last month was today declared the coldest December since 1996. Seven people died last month as snow, avalanches and sub-zero temperatures wreaked havoc in the UK.
And a family of four were today recovering from hypothermia after their canoe capsized in “icy cold” River Avon near Bath.
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Please stop fear mongering over the weather and a little bit of snow. It is winter after all and we only get mild winters compared to many places in the world.
Looks like the global warming scare tactics are a myth although they can still use that other myth to describe the cold known as climate change.
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I live on a main bus route in Sandwell to Walsall and have only saw 2 gritting lorries in 3 weeks. Both times there was no snow or frost on that day or the following day.
Paul MOT.
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Paul sounds like you are not spending enough time snooping out of your window, put some 24/7 effort into your snooping and you may begin to see more grit lorries.
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Light snow forecast. It’s not so much the weather here that’s the problem, it’s the arrogant, inconsiderate nature of some of the people using our roads. Travel just outside this region..to places like the east where they have it much worse..and you can get about easier. It’s not so mo much the snow but the sheer population density and lack of manners in general.
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I would like to say thank you to Sandwell Labour Council for saving my car from being attacked by road salt, they have been very economical with the road salt this year, indeed as they are every year.
Concerning road salt I was incensed the other day when I read that a Councillor Tom Ansell, a Walsall Council cabinet member for transport had said that people were plundering supplies of salt, and that we don’t want to be in a position where the grit runs out because people have stolen it. This would put lives in danger”
Councillor Tom Ansell they are not stealing what they have paid for in the form of their Council Tax!!!!!! It belongs to the people.
“Walsall bosses today warned that the theft of grit could put lives at risk”!!! Walsall bosses don’t you think that ignoring the fact that the roads are icy and need treating accordingly to save the lives or both motorists and pedestrians is totally irresponsible? And instead of forcing people to have to remove road salt from the roadside bins, that the Council should be gritting all the roads, all the people are paying council tax, and all people are entitled to have their roads treated.
I would remind councillors from all the local boroughs that you have a choice of salting the roads to save lives or of supplying part time councillors with their free pensions, if you choose the latter and people are killed or injured, will you own up to the fact that these people needn’t have suffered if the money had been spent on keeping the roads gritted?
Jim of Bearwood
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