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Sheffield snow: Amber weather warning issued for large parts of UK for weekend of January 4-5, 2025
The Star, Sheffield
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03/01/2025
An amber weather warning has been issued for snow in large parts of the UK for the weekend of January 4-5, 2025, with widespread disruption expected.
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Good afternoon, Sheffield. It's Alistair from the Sheffield Star. I'm coming to you with
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a little weather update for January the 4th and 5th of 2025, and I'm afraid it's not looking
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very good in Sheffield. The Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency, or UCHA, has
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issued an amber weather warning for snow and ice in Sheffield coming this weekend. We've
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been talking about the snow that's due to come already, but I'm afraid this has been
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upgraded from a yellow weather warning up to an amber one, meaning that the chance of
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disruption is very high and likely, but the impact itself will be quite medium, they're
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saying, less than a red amber alert, which has got a threat to life, for example. But
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yeah, we can expect rather widespread disruption and a lot of problems in Sheffield this weekend
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due to some very heavy snow that is likely on the way. Here's what we need to know. Aside
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from some plummeting temperatures going down to around the 1 and 0 degree area, the snow
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is likely to arrive on Saturday evening from around 9pm. Previously it was thought just
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to arrive overnight in the Sunday, but there's now been pushed back to arriving at around
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9pm on Saturday instead. And that's likely to last for well over 15 hours, basically.
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They're predicting to last until around noon on the Sunday, at which point it's not even
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due to end, it's more like that's when some heavy rain is expected to arrive and mix in
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with it. So really quite terrible weather come Sunday, certainly when we wake up. Now
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the chance of that actually settling is very unpredictable right now. While it's likely
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to settle on the Saturday night and going into Sunday morning, the snow that's due to
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arrive on the Sunday is likely to cause some problems about whether it will settle or not.
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It's very deep snow in the meantime though. Areas above 300 metres, such as above sea
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level at the Highstones area of Derbyshire I can think of, very rural, well they've been
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told to expect upwards of 40cm of snow, which would easily leave them quite cut off and
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isolated at that point. Lower lying areas like city centre can expect up to 7cm of snow,
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so between snowdrifts and variations like that it's going to be quite chaotic in Sheffield
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this weekend. We're putting up some advice about what to do in these situations on the
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Star now. There's wide-ranging advice about what to do to look after your neighbours and
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whether you should be driving in these sort of conditions, but we can expect some pretty
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widespread disruption in Sheffield this weekend. No more than that, we hope to bring you more
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updates as it happens. We'll be able to share pictures and more advice as it happens over
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the weekend, but yeah it's going to be quite a disruptive one in Sheffield this weekend,
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so please look after yourselves and think of your neighbours, think of the vulnerable people
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in the area that you can check in on and we'll bring you the latest as it happens.
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