High winds and heavy snow has seen Kirklees Council’s stretched to the limit once again.

Just two weeks on from the ‘Beast From the East’, the council’s winter team has been out in force again.

After showers throughout the day, consistent snow began to fall at about 5pm yesterday evening, and continued right through the night.

The so-called ‘Mini Beast From The East’ brought almost as much snow as its predecessor but this time gusting winds made visibility and drifts as much of a problem as snow on the ground.

A Kirklees Council snow plough about to set off

Video footage of blizzard like conditions has been posted online by the council’s Kirklees Winter Twitter account.

They have shown that northern and southern parts of the borough have been struggling with the same problems.

Gritters have been tackling drifts around Upperthong, in Honley and Hunsworth, near Cleckheaton.

A spokesperson for the Kirklees Winter team said: “With the whole of Kirklees under a Met Office weather warning this weekend, our gritting team have been rather busy.

“All priority routes were gritted several times yesterday and we hand gritted Dewsbury and Huddersfield town centre pavements.

“We kept the gritters out most of Saturday evening as the snow came down.

“Today we gritted and ploughed from 5am and kept the crews out over higher ground for a few hours longer.

“We’re out again from 4pm, it takes a few hours to get round the whole route and we’ll keep a night patrol out.

“The Met Office have put us under a yellow warning for snow and ice until midnight tonight and then it’s looking to be ice tomorrow.”