Communities across Caerphilly County Borough are slowly returning to normal as temperatures begin to rise.
The local authority reports that many roads are now open, including Caerphilly Mountain Road, and that its gritting teams are making their way around to as many streets as they can.
Caerphilly County Borough Council has also said that Newbridge, Heolddu, Caerphilly and St Cenydd Leisure Centres are open today between 9am and 6pm.
Arriva Trains Wales has said there are no services today between Caerphilly and Rhymney while Stagecoach South Wales will be operating a limited service. Latest updates are available via its Twitter feed.
Met Office Chief Meteorologist, Dan Suri, said: “After the severe cold weather and snow we’ve had this week the good news is that temperatures will slowly increase from the south, generally up to around 4 or 5 °C quite widely by the end of the weekend and we could even see up to 9 to 10 °C in southern areas. It will remain coldest in north as well as the east of the UK and over the deepest snow cover.
“As we head into next week the weather will return to something more typical for the time of year, with any snow showers gradually becoming confined to high ground in northeastern Scotland and the Northern Isles. For most of us southwesterly winds will return and we can expect rain at times.”
Caerphilly Observer has been told of plenty of heroics from members of the community and we’d love to feature your snow stories and pictures. Please send them to news@caerphilly.observer.
Great to see communities pulling together to clear the snow, but I have one question where are the gritters and snowploughs?? They have been as rare as hen teeth on our streets. I wonder why we pay our taxes. Probably to fund the council overpaid councillors and managers
I have to say, as a volunteer driver for the South East Wales 4×4 Response group I have seen quite a few snowploughs and gritters out and about since Friday afternoon. I think they were mainly trying to keep main roads open Edward, so unfortunately the residential streets were a low priority, I guess.
You are probably right Edward, I have dug out paths for several people in my street. I have lived there 24 years and, if memory serves, have only known council workers clearing snow once. In fairness with this particular snow fall there are higher priority roads to clear and the whole thing has been short lived.
I chuckled at the travel report on BBC Radio Wales today that said the “mountain road from Caerffili to Cardiff is closed.” As I travelled over it four times today for work and drove over it last night too I found that rather funny. It shows how lazy and innacurate the BBC has become.