Weather Forcast For Doncaster

Weather warning for the weekend

After another fairly hard frost tonight (Friday) a low of -6C,  Saturday will start bright and frosty. By mid afternoon cloud will have thickened up along with a breeze picking up from about S to SE. Sleet is likely before dusk and will readily turn to snow persisting into the late evening and early part of the night before easing down and turning to sleet or rain before it peters out around dawn on Sunday morning. The timing of this clearance is pretty crucial as any clear skies before or soon after dawn will lead to very icy stretches where surfaces have not been treated.

Expect 2-3cm of snow for most parts of the area and possibly 5-6cm in places.

Also remember that higher ground will receive even more, perhaps 10cm and being colder the snow may blow into drifts over places like the Peak District and possibly the Wolds of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

update at 1530 Saturday

sleet and snow into the western parts of Sheffield at 1315 so expect it in the Doncaster area by about 3pm. Wet type flakes to start but turning to more typical snow and I still reckon on the amounts quoted above. It may end rather sooner than my original estimate, possibly by or soon after midnight with a little rain or drizzle. Frost developing as the clouds start to thin and break so some nasty surface conditions where they have not been treated. Again very poor conditions on the higher level routes until the ploughs and gritters get on top of things.

With regard to a longer range outlook please read the second pdf output.