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Preparing for winter weather
Stay weather aware
You can check out the latest weather forecast for Barnsley and severe weather warnings on the Met Office website. You can also sign up to receive winter weather alerts by email, providing critical information straight to your phone.
How you can prepare for winter weather
The Met Office have a Weather Ready campaign which provides lots of useful information about getting ready for winter and the steps you can take to prepare yourself for severe weather.
They've produced a series of advice guides including:
- travel - including preparing your vehicle for winter and driving in severe weather
- your home - how to get your property winter ready
- health and wellbeing - including how cold weather can affect your health
- how to stay safe in a storm and what to do in a power cut
You should take extra care when travelling in colder weather, check your vehicle is winter ready, and leave plenty of time for your journey in adverse weather.
Keeping our roads safe in winter
Our gritting team work through the winter to keep our primary road routes clear across the borough. They're on standby around the clock until the end of April, ready to head out and grit our main routes day or night.
We monitor weather stations around the borough which, along with specialised daily forecasts, let us know when we need to head out and grit the roads. We also monitor air and road temperatures, rainfall, road moisture, cloud cover, wind direction, and residual salt.
The grit we provide in grit bins can be used to treat the roads and pavements in areas we don’t grit, but you shouldn’t use this on your own property. Visit our gritting page for more information.
Staying well
See our stay well this winter webpage for tips on staying warm, healthy and well during the colder months.
