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DS Risk Warning: Weather

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Hello all,

The forecast has just worsened for Sunday over part of our customer area! There is now an AMBER warning for snow for just south of Bristol in a line down to Southampton and North across the channel into S. Wales and part of Glos. The area extends down through N. Somerset into Somerset and across into Banes. The YELLOW warning area surrounds the AMBER and is for snow and ice. 

A YELLOW ice warning extends across our whole customer area until 10.00 am on Monday 19th to add to the challenge of the return on Monday morning. It appears there might be some travel difficulty hanging over until then.

  

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etween 00:05 Sun 18th and 18:00 Sun 18th

There is the potential for a spell of snow, moving west over southwest Britain on Saturday night and become locally heavy on Sunday. Strong easterly winds will lead to some drifting of snow. Travel delays on roads are likely, stranding some vehicles and passengers. Some delays and cancellations to rail and air travel are likely. There is a good chance that some rural communities could become cut off with some disruption to power supplies.

Chief Forecaster's assessment

A weather system is expected to run west along the English Channel and bring a spell of snow to southwest Britain on Sunday, clearing from the east during the afternoon. As less cold air follows from the south, snow may turn to rain along the south coast of Devon and Cornwall. There is the potential for 5-10 cm of snow to fall quite widely, and 15-25 cm over higher ground. However, there remains uncertainty in how this system will develop and its impacts.

Warning impact matrix

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likely
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Unlikely
Very low
impact		toHigh
impact

​Have an interesting weekend then!

Bill​
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Bill Crocker
Executive Director
Tech IOSH, MEPS, MRICS.

Tel: 07795 190 130
In Emergency or Critical Incident tel: 07979 425 989. 

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