Weather warning remains in place for Tipp
Tipperary County Council’s Severe Weather Assessment Team and Crisis Management Team convened this Thursday morning as a Status Orange Low Temperature/Ice warning remains in effect for Tipperary.
The Met Éireann warning for extremely cold weather with widespread severe frost, ice and lying snow remains in place.
Temperatures overnight dropped to as low as -8 across some areas of the county. This has caused further and ongoing difficult road conditions across many areas. Some treacherous driving conditions exist in area with icy conditions throughout the county.
A further Status Orange Low Temperature/Ice warning will come into effect for Tipperary at 7pm tonight until 8am tomorrow morning. A Status Yellow warning also remains in place until noon on Friday, January 10.
The council is urging all road users to take extreme care if they must travel over the coming days. Conditions remain extremely challenging on many routes where lying snow continues to be an issue, particularly across the following areas extending from Dolla, Silvermines, Newport, Kilcommon, and Templederry.
Council crews are continuing to treat priority routes, however, due to the low temperatures, widespread icy patches can be expected even on treated roads, extreme caution is required on the following roads:-
• R690 Kearney’s Hill (Ballingarry/Mullinahone) impassable
• Griffin’s Cross to Templederry, Templederry to Curraba, Shalee to Caapparoe and Nenagh, Shallee to Kiloscully, Shalee to Ballinahinch, Kiloscully to Newport.
• L3220 Dukierin Road out of Templemore, L3211 Ragg to Templemore Road
• L2303 Moyglass-Coolbawn Cross
• L2107 Ballyigarry-Commons
• L2209 Lismalin Cross-Drangan
• L2301 Drangan-Killenaule
• L2204 Killenaule-Crohane
The treated routes across the county are currently taking over 4 hours to complete in the current conditions indicating the challenges being faced by the service teams. These routes are normally completed in 3 hours. Tipperary County Council has spread approximately 2,500 tonnes of salt in the past number of days. However, there is no issue with salt supplies for the winter programme and clearing works in the districts.
Tipperary County Council Winter Service crews will continue to prioritise the clearing and treatment of the planned winter maintenance salting routes.