Sheffield weather Monday: More snow forecast for this afternoon

The city has already seen snow falling on and off over the last few days since the first fall of the winter arrived on Thursday night, with a further blanket arriving on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Forecasts from the Met Office throughout today have predicted snow, but have been updated as the day has progressed.

According to the forecast made by the Met Office at 7am today, the city would see more snow arrive over a period of several hours this afternoon with ‘light snow’ at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm. At 9am, they had updated the forecast to say light snow would start at 6pm, with heavy snow at 7pm. The 12noon forecast predicted light snow to start at 7pm, and light snow again at 8pm. The update at 2pm, was forecasting light snow, but only at 7pm.

However the latest 4pm update had downgraded that to fog at 7pm with a 30 per cent chance of ‘precipitation’ – a word often used to describe rain or snow.

Yesterday, Travel South Yorkshire reported snow was causing ‘severe’ disruption and advised anyone heading out to plan ahead and allow extra time for their journey.

Streets Ahead, who run Sheffield’ gritters said today: “We're back out gritting this morning, with lots of black ice around after the recent snowfall. Please take extra care, make use of your local grit bin and report any empty grit bins to us so that our teams can refill.”