Late Nov / Early Dec cold snap
It looks like Fife has had a fair dumping of snow overnight and more snow showers are forecast throughout the day. As of time of original posting, 5am, several roads around Perth and Stirling including the main A9 are closed so it looks like roads may be tricky as the day goes on. Hopefully the gritters and ploughs will make an appearance today.
Early warning for next weekend
Early forecasts are predicting more snow and temperatures to plummet to -15c in Fife. One to keep an eye on.
Update 0830 Tuesday 30th November – The forecast for today and tomorrow is fairly frequent snow showers coming in from the east with temps hovering around or below freezing.
On the whole, most main roads in Fife have been well gritted and ploughed. As soon as you head over into Perth & Kinross its clear to see that they aren’t using any grit and just ploughing. The A912 from Gateside to Bridge of Earn is fine, slushy but driveable as far as the border at Balvaird Castle. Then it changes to rutted hard packed snow. Between the Bein and Baiglie Inns there have been several trees down and several more are leaning over the road, ready to snap under the weight of the snow. In Bridge of Earn itself cars and lorries were getting stuck trying to negotiate the railway overbridge.
The same goes for the A913. Up to Newburgh the roads are perfectly driveable. Beyond Newburgh, the road conditions get worse with hard packed snow due from lack of grit.
After Sunday’s closure with 8 hour jams, the M90 is down to a single lane each way between Kinross and Perth and will get tricky fast if there is any more significant snowfall. It doesn’t help that Traffic Scotland’s cameras for Glenfarg and the Friarton Bridge are down (and have been for months). Going south, currently Traffic Scotland have a hazard alert that between Kinross and Halbeath conditions are treacherous because of the snow.
If you are driving anywhere today or in the next few days, take care and remember to check the latest travel news. Links are at the bottom of this page.
Update 2000 Tuesday 30th November - It seems that tonight roads across Fife aren’t being gritted at all. I drove from Freuchie to Anstruther via Leven and back via St Andrews and there were no gritters to be seen nor any evidence of gritting having taken place tonight. Inland away from the coast, the roads are very icy and treacherous. The forecast is for more frequent snow showers with temperatures around -3c, falling lower under clear skies. It’s currently -5c here at Freuchie and snowing. Wednesday is more of the same.
Update 2100 Thursday 2nd December – It’s currently -10c and still dropping. This means grit and salt on the roads stop working and we are into burst pipe territory.
