In Prohoda Shipka the weather is cloudy with snowfall, reported BTA, referring to information from the Regional Road Administration in Stara Zagora.
The road surfaces are covered with snow and processed, in some places visibility is reduced to 50 meters due to snowdrifts. This was reported to BTA by the Regional Road Administration in Stara Zagora. The temperature is minus 3 degrees, two snow machines are working.
The weather is cloudy and raining in Prohoda na Republika. Road surfaces are wet, visibility is reduced to 50 meters due to fog. The temperature is minus 1 degree, four machines are working.
On the highway “Thrace“ in the Stara Zagora region, the weather is cloudy with rain, the road surfaces are wet, the visibility is good, and the temperature is six degrees. In the section of the highway “Maritsa“ it is also cloudy in the district, the surfaces are wet, and the temperature is seven degrees, the Regional Road Administration added.
From there they informed that at the moment there have been no reports of traffic difficulties in the area.
Snow is falling above 1,500 meters above sea level in the Smolyan region, the duty officer at the Regional Road Administration (OPU) told BTA. The road conditions are normal and clean. The passages – Prevala, Pamporovo, Rozhen, Pechinsko are passable in winter conditions.
Outside the canvas on the high parts, the snow cover reaches up to 10 centimeters.
Roads in the Blagoevgrad region are passable in winter conditions, the duty officer in the Regional Road Administration (OPA) told BTA. The snowfall in the area has almost stopped, it is still snowing in the high part of the Predel pass, the OPU pointed out – Blagoevgrad.
From there, they add that all the roads have been treated, and there are currently snow removal machines in the field. At the beginning of the snowfall, the roads were processed by 14 machines, and as the snow intensified, more snowplows came out, reports the OPU.
Over 100 people and all the available equipment work on the roads in the municipality of Blagoevgrad, informed the mayor of the city, Metodi Baikushev, on his official Facebook page. The main boulevards, bus stops and squares are cleaned. Since midnight, salt has been thrown on steep parts in the high-rise "Liberation" district, and the center has been treated with magnesium.
Baikushev also reports about fallen trees, broken cables and stalled cars, which signals are being worked on, and there are no serious accidents. The lighting next to the road to the park “Bachinovo“ is broken, adds the mayor of Blagoevgrad.
According to information from the Municipality of Blagoevgrad, the snow cover in the villages in the higher parts is between 15 and 30 cm. The roads there will be passable this afternoon at the earliest, reports Baikushev.