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Picture perfect weather takes its toll
MOTORISTS across South Yorkshire face hazardous road conditions as Arctic weather conditions strike again - leaving schools and roads closed.
Totley Primary School was shut due to a burst water pipe. Lound Infants, Heritage Park, Woolley Wood and Ecclesfield Primary schools were also closed all day due to heating problems.
Similar issues means Yewlands schools was also closed to Years 7, 8 and 9 - but open to Years 10, 11 and all staff.
Check out the situation on the roads with images direct from Sheffield's traffic cameras, click here
Police closed Ranmoor Park Road in Sheffield at 10am due to the icy road conditions.
Cars overturned and slid off roads as snow fell and temperatures plunged below zero.
The A57 Snake Pass between Sheffield and Manchester was closed all day yesterday due to ice and snow.
A Volvo 4x4 flipped on its roof after skidding on ice on one of Sheffield's steepest roads.
Firefighters said a man and two boys were taken to hospital after the car ran out of control on Highcliffe Road, Bents Green, yesterday at 11am.
Firefighters used the less steep Greystones Road to approach the crash scene.
And another vehicle left a road and slid into a ditch in the Mayfield Valley.
A police spokesman said there were two car crashes within two hours yesterday on Ivy Park Road, Sandygate, due to ice.
The first, at 6pm, saw a Renault Megane, slam into a garden wall. Two hours later a BMW skidded and hit a lamp-post. No one was injured in either incident.
Police closed Intake Lane, Pogmoor, Barnsley, to prevent accidents after a two-car crash at 1.15pm.
The force received reports of people abandoning their cars due to sheet ice on Solly Street in the city centre. And there were reports of sheet ice causing problems on Weston Street, Netherthorpe, at tea time.
A police spokesman said the A628 Woodhead Pass between Barnsley and Manchester had remained open yesterday.
Weather forecasters say the cold snap is set to continue for the next few days, with temperatures not expected to get much above freezing.
This morning it was -4C in Sheffield city centre with outlying areas as cold as -6C.
Tonight cloud is set to build up and a band of sleet and snow is due to hit the area, with heavy snow expected to fall between midnight and 6am.
A fire service spokesman for the MetoGroup weather forecasters said Sheffield city centre could be under two or three centimetres of snow tomorrow morning, with high lying ground at risk of four or five centimetres.
- Police have issued a safety warning urging people to avoid frozen water after a number of people attempted to rescue a dog which had fallen through the ice on a Doncaster lake.
The dog had become trapped in the lake in Sandall Park, Thorne Road, and people who tried to rescue it also fell through the ice.
Police said the dog and rescuers all escaped unharmed.
Send us your snow photos and we'll add them to our online gallery. Email jpegs to staronline@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk. Are you unable to get to work or school because of the weather? Join the debate by adding your comment below.
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Weather for Sheffield
Saturday 26 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 18 mph
Wind direction: East
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 14 mph
Wind direction: East
