Monongalia County students are getting another snow day Wednesday, Jan. 8, courtesy of Winter Storm Blair.
That’s three in a row, courtesy of the icy onslaught that roiled across the region Sunday night and has been hanging around ever since.
And Mon’s secondary roads right now have ice in abundance, Mon Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said.
That’s why he made the advance call to shutter schools.
“If we had gone on Wednesday, we’d still have 24 bus routes that we weren’t going to be able to run,” he said. “That’s pretty significant.”
Pretty frustrating, too, Campbell said.
With all 55 counties still under a state of emergency, that means salt trucks from the West Virginia Department of Transportation have to focus on highways and main roads first, the superintendent added.
The consistently cold temperatures that are Blair’s byproduct also mean that snow and ice isn’t going anywhere soon.
Trace amounts from flurries this week could also add a coating of 1-2 inches over what’s already there – and the bitterly cold nights AccuWeather is calling for this week aren’t helping either.
Wednesday’s projected high of 26 also includes snow showers a low of 15, the forecaster said.
The mercury could drop as low as 5 degrees Thursday night, according to AccuWeather meteorologists say, with daytime temperatures finally climbing back up to around 30 for the weekend.
“I can’t remember three snow days in a row for a long time,” said Campbell, who is a former principal of a high school located just below the Arctic Circle in Alaska.
“And this is just from one storm.”
