9:06am Monday 8th February 2010
By Richard Harris
SNOW is expected to return to York and North and East Yorkshire tomorrow with freezing temperatures likely to cause hazardous driving conditions all week.
Forecasters are predicting light snow showers this evening, which are expected to continue through into tomorrow.
Night-time temperatures will remain below freezing until at least the weekend. This will be tempered, though, by sunny spells throughout the week and day-time temperatures staying at about 5C.
Weathermen have also predicted that the cold weather will continue through next week, with further, heavier falls of snow possible. The icy weather will mean further pressure for City of York Council and its gritting teams.
The council said it believed it would be able to cope, although there was the possibility that supplies of grit would have to be rationed.
Gritting lorries only went out once over the weekend which meant that currently the council has about 300 tonnes of grit stockpiled.
This is expected to be boosted by a delivery of 100 tonnes from Cleveland Potash tomorrow.
Council leader Coun Andrew Waller said: “That would only bring us back up to 400 tonnes and given a sustained period of snow, that would mean we would have to be extremely economical with its application.”
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