Highland Council winter road condition report for Wednesday 30 January 2019
Maps of the Council’s gritting routes by priority and policy are available online at www.highland.gov.uk/gritting
The information provided is a summary of reports from operational staff and is intended to give a general indication of typical conditions in each area at a point in time. It is not intended to imply that any individual route is entirely snow and ice free and drivers must be aware that conditions can change rapidly and make their own assessment of conditions for travelling.
Road condition reports by The Highland Council’s Community Services for Wednesday 30 January 2019 are as follows:
Lochaber: Fresh fall of snow overnight very heavy over on the west, some areas having 3" to 4”. All morning routes ploughed and gritted, treatment on going, side roads and footpaths are getting done. Posted 08:40
Nairn: Snow fall overnight throughout the area. All routes are being ploughed and treated with a 20g treatment. No known overnight issues. Posted 07:11
Ross and Cromarty: Roads across the whole area affected by snow of various depths and low road surface temperatures. All priority 1 routes will likely need ploughed and gritted in both directions which means a late start to the secondary routes and a very late start to the other routes.
The tree that was down and blocking the A890 8 miles east of Lochcarron towards Achnasheen has been cleared and the road is now open and passable with care. There are up to 4" of snow along this section towards Lochcarron. Crews undertaking Route 5 (Lochcarron to Kinlochewe ) and Route 9 ( The Beallach ) will be running later than normal due to the delay. Posted at 06:58
Badenoch & Strathspey: There is 5cm of fresh snow cover on roads and crews are out treating all routes by priority. Posted 08:58
Skye & Lochalsh: There is 3" of snow across whole area with 5" on higher ground. Treatment is ongoing on Primary & Secondary Routes. Posted 08:58
South Sutherland: All routes affected by snow this morning with 2” on low ground and 5''on high ground. All routes being bladed & treated as necessary Posted 09:10
Highland has the longest road network of any council in Scotland and it is not possible to treat every road at the same time. A priority system is applied to treat the areas in greatest need first.
Trunk roads are gritted by BEAR Scotland (North West) for Transport Scotland.
School Closures:
Three secondary schools (403 pupils); 24 primary schools: (683 pupils) and 16 nurseries: (155 children) were either closed or partially closed as at 9.30am this morning.
Details are:
Auchtertyre Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Auchtertyre Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Bonar Bridge Nursery - EM: Closed (bad weather)
Bonar Bridge Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Broadford Nursery - EM: Closed (bad weather)
Broadford Primary: Partially closed – opening 1 hour later (bad weather)
Bualnaluib Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Bualnaluib Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Bun-Sgoil Shlèite: Partially closed – opening 1 hour later (bad weather)
Bun-sgoil Shleite - GM Nursery: Partially closed – opening 1 hour later
Carbost Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Carbost Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Dunvegan Nursery - GM: Closed (bad weather)
Dunvegan Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Edinbane Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Elgol Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Farr High School: Closed (bad weather)
Farr Primary (Suth): Closed (bad weather)
Farr Primary Nursery (Suth): Closed (bad weather)
Glenelg Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Glenelg Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Kilmuir Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Kilmuir Primary Nursery - GM: Closed (bad weather)
Kinlochbervie High School: Closed (bad weather)
Kinlochbervie Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Kinlochewe Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Kinlochewe Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Lairg Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Lairg Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Loch Duich Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Macdiarmid Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Macdiarmid Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Melvich Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Melvich Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Plockton High School: Closed (bad weather)
Plockton Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Poolewe Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Poolewe Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Rosehall Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Shieldaig Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Shieldaig Primary Nursery: Closed (bad weather)
Staffin Primary: Closed (bad weather)
Staffin Primary Nursery - GM: Closed (bad weather)
Struan Primary: Closed (bad weather)
The schools closures page on the Council’s website at: https://www.highland.gov.uk/schoolclosures is updated from 7am and cleared each evening by 6pm.
Get alerts of closures on Highland Council’s Twitter and Facebook. Or phone 0800 564 2272 to get the latest pre-recorded message from head teachers regarding their school. Have the school's PIN ready when you call.