The Met Office forecasts that snow showers will continue today and tha more snow will settle up to 5 cm in places. The low temperatures will keep the snow frozen or turn it to ice making pavements very difficult to walk on.
Local roads and red routes were gritted all through the night and all main roads were reached. The Council has used more than 150 tonnes of grit since Monday evening and has more than 1000 tonnes left in stock. Street cleaning and parks staff are gritting and targeting schools, shops, hospitals and care homes for special attention.
Traffic levels were pretty low this morning and moving much more easily than last night. But traffic levels are expected to increase as the day goes on and we hit rush hour. Gritting will continue throughout the day and evening.
There is a good service reported on most London Underground lines but the Overground is closed between Dalston Junction and West Croydon. Southern rail services have been pretty hit and miss and operating to a limited timetable.
The Royal Mail has stopped guaranteeing that it can get Special Delivery items to people on time if they were posted today.
The council has mainly operated business as usual today but many schools are closed
AND LATER….?
The Met Office forecast that tonight will be very cold and cloudy with further, mostly light snow at times, but some of the snow could still be heavy at times over Kent, Sussex and Surrey and the temperature is likely to drop well below 0 °C tonight.
It looks like the snow showers should ease during Thursday and, by Friday it looks as if we should be free of snow.
SERVICE STATUS TODAY
Refuse collection is operational today and beginning to catch up from yesterday where possible
Street Cleaning are clearing pavements, filling grit bins and acting as a reactive grit team
Parks teams are also clearing pavements, filling grit bins and acting as a reactive grit team
The leisure centres at Westcroft, Cheam, Sutton Arena and the Phoenix Centre are all open today
All of the Libraries are open as usual
Day centres are not open
SCOLA centres will be closed today (Wednesday) and this evening
THE FOLLOWING SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED:
• Abbey Primary
• All Saints Carshalton
• Amy Johnson Primary
• Avenue Primary
• Bandon Hill Primary
• Barrow Hedges
• Beddington Infants
• Beddington Park Primary
• Brookfield Primary
• Camden Junior
• Carshalton Boys
• Carshalton High School for Girls
• Cheam High
• Cheam Park Farm Junior
• Culvers House Primary
• Devonshire Primary
• Foresters Primary
• Greenshaw High
• Green Wrythe Primary
• Hackbridge Primary
• Holy Trinity
• Muschamp Primary
• Nonsuch High School
• Overton Grange
• Robin Hood Infants
• Robin Hood Junior
• Rushy Meadow Primary
• St. Cecelia’s Primary
• St. Elpheges Infants
• St. Elpheges Junior
• St. Mary’s Infants
• St. Mary’s Junior
• Spencer Nursery
• Stanley Park High
• Stanley Park Infants
• Stanley Park Juniors
• STARS
• Thomas Wall Nursery
• Tweeddale Primary & Children’s Centre
• Victor Seymour Infants
• Wallington High School for Girls
• Wandle Valley
• Westbourne Primary
• Wilsons
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