Snow day: What all goes into school closings?
It wasn"t going to get done early.
Only the Hacketstown School Districtwas proactive and set a 90-minute delay on Thursday for Friday morning. It updated that with a closure just before 6:45 a.m.
By 5 a.m., there were snow emergencies in Hackettstown and Belvidere -- both of which began at midnight; Hakettstown"s was lifted just after 11 a.m. -- but all the other school delays were in the Poconos, according to WFMZ"s list.
That slowly changed over the next 30 minutes.
Scattered snowflakes began falling at that hour in Easton with the temperature at 38 degrees, but, while there was plenty to see on weather radar, there was nothing on the ground. While it picked up in intensity, by 5:40, nothing was sticking in Easton.
The pace of delays roseafter 5:30 a.m.
The temperature dropped with the snow, falling to 34 degrees by 6 a.m. It was 33 by 7 a.m. and finally hit freezing just before 8 a.m.
The Bethlehem Area School District remained on its regular schedule, Superintendent Joseph Roy said, because "Based on the forecasts and weather service I use, there is supposed to be little to no accumulation on roads."
Trees, lawns, cars and roofs were getting a dusting by 6:10 a.m. as it snowed harderin Easton.
The forecast was pointed at sunrise -- 6:20 a.m. -- for the snowing and sticking part of the storm. The National Weather Service expects 2 to 4 inches with the posssibility of precipitation at 100 percent. But the roads and most sidewalks remained clear.
Just before 6:30 a.m., meteorologist Joe Martucci checked in from WeatherWorks in Hackettstown to say the weather company"s forecast remained 2 to 4 inches of snow, but "less on roads." He reminded that there is the possibility of snow squalls and thunder snow from 3 p.m. until 11 p.m., with another inch possible.
Several Warren County school districts that were on delays switched to closed by 8 a.m.
A crash after 6 a.m. shut the right lane of Route 33 South near the Freemansburg Avenue interchange in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania State Police reported. But most roads remained clear at that hour, a trooper said from the Belfast barracks.
DELAYS/CLOSURES
We"ll update as we get them
- Allentown School District, closed; professional development
- Bangor Area School District, closed
- UPDATE: Belvidere School District, closed
- Catasauqua Area School District, closed; teacher inservice
- UPDATE: Hackettstown School District, closed
- UPDATE: North Warren Regional School District,closed
- UPDATE: Phillipsburg School District,closed
- Sacred Heart School in Bath closed by power outage (WFMZ)
- Warren County Community College, closed
- UPDATE: Warren County elementaries (from WFMZ): Alpha (closed), Franklin (closed), Greenwich (closed), Harmony (closed), Hope (closed), Lopatcong (closed), Mansfield (closed), Pohatcong (closed), Oxford Central (closed), Washington (closed), Washington Township (closed), White Township (closed)
- UPDATE: Warren Hills Regional School District,closed
- UPDATE: Warren Tech, closed
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Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/03/school_delays_with_snow_in_the.html
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