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Snow causes school delays, closings
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Published: November 21, 2008
Updated: 11/21/2008 07:14 am
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools were on a two hour delay because of the weather, and schools are closed in Watauga, Alleghany and Ashe counties.
The Triad got a dusting of snow early this morning, and parts of the mountains of Northwest North Carolina got up to four inches.
Temperatures were above freezing in the Triad this morning and the snow shouldn't last long, said Dennis Sleighter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Va.
The temperature in Winston-Salem at 5:30 a.m. was 33 degrees.
The snow had not caused any complications on the city's roads this morning, Winston-Salem police said.
A winter weather advisory is in effect until 8 this morning in Forsyth and Davidson counties. The weather service said temperatures in the low 40s and wind gusts up as high as 30 mph could produce wind chill values into the 20s and 30s for most of the day.
The snow in Western North Carolina forced state troopers to close part of Interstate 40 until highway crews spread salt on the roadway.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Friday that the interstate was closed in eastbound lanes near the Haywood-Buncombe county line while crews work on the road between mile markers 33 and 37. The stretch of interstate winds through mountains.
Traffic was being detoured. The snow wasn't in earlier weather forecasts.
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