• Under pressure: Stewart Stevenson
The revelation came after the Minister made a statement on Holyrood in which he insisted, the weather had been stronger than forecast.
To apologize, the Scottish Government handling of chaos Lord to mention Stevenson, he had received a severe "flash" heavy snow warning at 20: 41 on Sunday night to bring halt nine hours before blizzards Scotland, to the main roads and stranding hundreds of drivers in their cars devoured.
Instead he quotes a less severe weather forecast hours earlier at 16: 01 was told before MSPs: "Some areas received more snow than forecast."
The Scottish Government was later Mr Stevenson was aware that had flash weather warning but judged it not more serious than previous forecasts.
But the met Office last night 20: 41 warning issued was after an escalation of the severity of the snow storms looming detected.
A spokesman for the Scottish Government claims that Sunday night 20: 41 similar amounts of snow to the forecasts was warning prediction, mentioned by Mr Stevenson.
In fact it increases the predicted snow 1-3 cm in areas including from Glasgow and Edinburgh, to 2-5 cm, as well as the "heavy" warnings about Central Scotland. It also warned "Widespread icy roads and heavy snow" to rush hour on Monday morning.
The spokesman said the met Office's weather of alert status for Scotland remained "Orange" in the entire Sunday night and early Monday morning and had not moved to red - the level of the driver are asked to leave their cars in the garage. "The alert status would not change and the snow level had not changed forecast", he said.
"Arrangements had been to try and get people back to work and to this day school of getting our crunches and salting operations go."
", Forecast for two to five inches was snow and 10 cm on the higher ground and is clearly not what occurred." "The forecast at eight o'clock the following morning was the same thing to say."
Asked why Mr Stevenson as his statement at Holyrood had mentioned the speaker said forecast the flash: "In Parliament, Stewart Stevenson not exhaustive went through all the forecasts that we received."
He added: "the level of the snow forecast have been treatable, but the amount of snow fell up to 20 cm was not treatable."
The new information placed on the website traffic Scotland but Mr Stevenson chose, as for example instruct drivers to the streets to take more drastic measures to take.
According to the met Office, is a flash, warning when forecasters are confident that the weather is much gotten worse.
A met Office spokesman said: "Flash warning for heavy snow are powered by our confidence that there is widespread disorder from an escalation in the weather and that is what happened on Sunday night."
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Less than two hours after warning has been issued the met Weatherman Phil Avery told BBC viewers: "it has become all too easy, complacent, but I emphasize that this fresh warnings from the met Office on ice and snow... like a new weather feature brings fresh snow in the central belt just in time for the rush hour."
The heavy snowfall saw travel ground to a halt as highways came to a halt on Monday with an 11-mile half back on the M8, during the M80, the A80 and also blocked the M9.
Car drivers were forced to try in the next city to go after the motorway at Harthill and Hermiston gait in nearby Edinburgh blocked two jack knifed trucks give up their cars on the M8.
Some drivers were forced to snow for hydration to eat while members of public life in addition to the M8 to help, crashed the drinks and food.
The police came under fire for because in their cars, drivers who are views of the night spend face come to help of the affected driver. Police estimated 500 stranded motorists on the M8 and a similar number on the M90.
Last night Labor's Holyrood calls transport spokesperson, Charlie Gordon, Mr Stevenson to resign.
"He wriggles and squirms and pushes the blame to others, he said."He blames the Weatherman-the problem was not the weather forecast or the met Office, the problem was his totally inadequate response. Unfortunately is not good enough. "The Minister responsible, admit his incompetence and go?"
The Minister of "selective" accused the Conservatives cited of weather forecasts in an attempt to shift the blame for the winter roads chaos on the met Office. In his parliamentary statement yesterday Mr Stevenson again apologizes for "non-position communicate better and earlier" travelers on Monday.
"I am the Minister of transport and I am responsible," he said MSPs. "what happened was, it should not happen extremely difficult and challenging - on Monday, and I have the position apologized for the failure of better and earlier to communicate."
He said the action which had to deal with the situation was "very complex" and that the amount of snow on Scotland fell on Monday "larger than estimated" met was Office in their advice Ministers.
The Transport Ministers should start personally suggested the Lib Dems to "amends the snow" clear to all concerned.
But it was his inaction on a crucial met bulletin that the Government was given the night before the storm led opposition claims that the Government at a time in "Excuse and spin" was wallow when the nation was ill.
Annabel Goldie MSP, British Conservative leader, said: "this is no time for excuse and spin it beggars believe for the SNP selectively quote from met Office reports to secure the ticket Monday's was snow 'unforecasted'."
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