1 October, the date at which Crews in Hertfordshire Highways are out on standby 24 hours a day.

2= The number of hours taken nn every trip to treat over 42 per cent of Hertfordshire’s roads – that’s over 1,500 miles.

3 ranks for priority order for clearing roads. The gritters cover 58 different routes across the county, in priority order. Should snow fall, the roads will be cleared in the same order:
* A roads but not motorways or trunk roads (the Highways Agency salt these roads)
* B roads and one entrance/exit to each village
* Major bus routes

4(0) (Forty) times is roughly how many times the fleet of 61 vehicles will be deployed over an average winter, usually at night so that the roads have been treated before the morning rush hour.

After the stretch for 4 I’ll give up on the numbers link!

5. There are 12 weather recording stations across the county that the council use to make up-to-the-minute decisions about when to go out salting.

6. You can follow Hertfordshire Highways’ salting decisions on twitter by going to http://www.twitter.com/Herts_Highways (although the Lib Dems have already asked them to translate it in to plain English.
Tweets get sent out saying “GritterTwitter: NA, No action 12:50 08/11/2010: RSTs abov zero.” when they would be more use in plain English: “All temperatures above zero – no gritters out tonight”)

7. Provide over 800 salt bins across the county at known trouble spots.

8. You can find maps of the salting routes and more information at: http://www.hertsdirect.org/salting

Any guesses on how much snow this weekend?