Severe weather

• Gritting and salting roads

• Gritting and salting of roads and maintaining grit heaps and salt bins is carried out by Cumbria Highways. Highways England grit and salt the M6 and A66.

• Cumbria Police traffic map

• Find out about traffic issues and road closures across Cumbria on Cumbria Constabulary website.

• Emergency telephone numbers list

• Telephone numbers for the police, Crimestoppers, Environment Agency, hospitals, gas, water, electricity, local radio, traffic news and local radio.

• Rough sleepers emergency accommodation

• Emergency accommodation is provided for people sleeping outside to get them off the streets during periods of below zero night-time temperatures.

• Flood warnings for Cumbria

• GOV.UK information on flood warnings and alerts for Cumbria, including option to sign up for flood alerts.

• Sandbag statement

• We issue sandbags to areas in immediate danger of flooding. So we ask residents, where possible, to source their own sand and sand bags.

• Flood preparation and response advice

• Flood preparation and response advice, including information about sandbags.

• Join the electricity priority services register

• If you are in need of extra support during a power cut you can sign up to Electricity North West Priority Services Register.

• Met Office weather warnings

• Use your postcode to search for Met Office weather warnings for the next 5 days in your area.

• Cumbria roads Police twitter

• Cumbria Police twitter account for up to date information on Cumbria's roads.

• National Rail enquires

• Find out about train delays and train cancellations due to wintry weather conditions or engineering work disrupting train journeys from National Rail enquiries.