Snow has fallen across Birmingham overnight with travel warnings in place. The city had been waiting all day for the big freeze to arrive after the Met Office issued both a yellow and amber severe weather alert warning for snow and ice in the city and surrounding areas.
The amber warning is set to last until midday today. A proper dose of the white stuff didn’t hit in most areas until around 10.30pm last night. Snow then began to quickly cover the roads and pavements across the city.
Road closures are anticipated, while ‘untreated pavements and cycle paths are likely to be impassable’.
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The Met Office said: “It is safer not to drive in these conditions, but if you need to make an essential journey, consider alternative forms of transport, to keep you and others safe.
“If you must drive, do this more safely by: using dipped headlights; accelerating gently, using low revs and changing to higher gears as quickly as possible; starting in second gear to help with wheel slip; maintaining a safe and steady speed, keeping distance from other vehicles; using a low gear to go downhill, avoiding braking unless necessary; steering into skids, not taking your hands of the wheel, and avoiding slamming on brakes.”
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