Freak snow and hail storms around Huddersfield caused havoc on the roads bringing parts of the town to a shuddering halt.
Long queues formed from around 4pm after hail storms left large amounts of ice and slush on roads.
Lorries then struggled to get up inclines which caused the surrounding area to become gridlocked.
And the conditions are set to continue today with the Met Office continuing a yellow warning for ‘risk of ice’. Temperatures are set to stay at 4°C degrees today but it will feel as cold as -1°C in parts of Kirklees.
Late yesterday afternoon drivers endured long delays as key routes became snarled up.
Kirklees Council said full gritting would be carried out by 6pm last night and throughout the night.
Motorists leaving the M62 at junction 23 (Outlane) queued for more than 40 minutes at teatime but the backlog had cleared by 7pm.
And over at Ainley Top traffic was reduced to a crawl with traffic down to one lane and Southgate in the town centre became gridlocked.
The bad weather also caused an accident in Longwood when a car crashed and flipped over on steep Gilead Road at 4.20pm but the driver was only slightly hurt.
A van smashed into lamp-post on Long Lane in Dalton at 4.45pm, but the driver managed to escape unhurt.
Edgerton resident Margaret Hardy said she had been caught out in the hailstorm and driving sleet yesterday.
She said: “My son-in-law Mindir couldn’t get his car up the drive and had to leave it on the road after several attempts.
“It was strange, it just seemed to come out of the blue.”
Farnley Tyas resident Andy Shaw was also affected in Farnley Tyas. He said: “Farnley Tyas was covered in snow within minutes of it reaching us.”
A brewer on his way to deliver 18 gallons of ale to hirsty punters at The Dusty Miller in Longwood had to abandon the trip because of the weather.
Neil Moorhouse said he had successfully delivered beer from his brewery in Milnsbridge to the YMCA in Salendine Nook when the hail and sleet started around 4pm.
He said: “I was on my way to the Dusty, (which he also runs), to deliver 18 gallons of Platinum Blonde when the bar manager Michael Dent phoned me to say: ‘don’t bother’.
And yet by 7.30pm the roads were largely back to normal.
Huddersfield weather expert Paul Stevens said: “We are set to have further wintry showers and could well see some hail again on Saturday and into Sunday. Sunday could see gusts of up to 60-70mph.”
