Wintry weather will be sticking around the listening area a bit longer than anticipated.
The National Weather Service has extended a winter weather advisory for Lyon, Coffey, Osage and Wabaunsee counties until 9 pm this evening. A separate advisory for Greenwood County also continues until 9 pm.
Advisories for Chase and Morris counties continue until 3 pm.
A third consecutive day of light snowfall coupled with freezing drizzle has made travel difficult in the listening area throughout the day Monday. Conditions have been slick in town and across the county with numerous slide-off accidents reported since around sunrise Monday morning.
No injuries have been reported with crashes so far. Area highways are all partly to completely covered, according to KanDrive.org.
Due to inclement weather, the following schedule adjustments have been reported:
Schools
*USD 253 Emporia on 2-hour delay Monday for both in-class and remote learners. No morning classes at Maynard
*USD 251 North Lyon County closed Monday
*USD 252 Southern Lyon County closed Monday. No remote learning. Special teachers meeting on Zoom at 10 am
*USD 243 Lebo-Waverly closed Monday
*USD 244 Burlington on 2-hour delay Monday. No morning preschool and no breakfast served
*USD 245 Southern Coffey County open but students will not be counted absent or tardy if they miss class
*USD 284 Chase County closed Monday
*USD 386 Madison-Virgil closed Monday
*USD 389 Eureka closed Monday
*USD 417 Morris County closed Monday
*USD 456 Marais des Cygnes Valley closed Monday
*Lords Lambs Preschool not having morning session Monday
Community
*Emporia Senior Center closed Monday
*First Christian Church food pantry closed Monday
Government operations
*Chase County Treasurer’s Office closed Monday
*City of Madison trash pickup delayed a day. Residential carts will be picked up Tuesday. Commercial carts will be picked up Thursday
If you have schedule adjustments to report, whether they are closings, cancellations, postponements or delays, call KVOE at 620-342-1400. You can also:
*Email kvoe@kvoe.com.
*Message Twitter@kvoeam1400 or Facebook@kvoenews.
*Message the Bluestem Farm and Ranch text line at 620-342-5863.
City, county and KDOT crews have been out throughout the day Monday treating roads as the mixture of snowfall and freezing drizzle continues.
We’ll keep you updated on KVOE, KVOE.com and KVOE social media. If you have schedule adjustments this week, call KVOE at 342-1400 or email kvoe@kvoe.com.
11 am Monday: Light snow, freezing drizzle leads to third straight day of travel woes areawide
Slow down if you have to drive. Stay home if you don’t.
That’s the advice from highway officials and law enforcement, even with less than three inches of snowfall on the ground from three different events. Conditions are slick after separate snowfalls Saturday and Sunday — as well as a mix of snow and freezing drizzle Monday.
City, county and KDOT crews have all been out Monday morning. Lyon County Engineer Chip Woods is reminding drivers to pay attention to the conditions and to give enough space so snowplow drivers can safely do their jobs.
Numerous reports of slideoff crashes started coming in around sunrise, and those have continued both in Lyon County and in neighboring counties. No injuries have been reported with crashes so far. Area highways are all partly to completely covered, according to KanDrive.org.
The travel issues caused numerous school districts to either close school outright or to delay operations two hours. Other schedule adjustments are also posted on KVOE.com’s Closings and Cancellations page. Click here for that information.
Winter weather advisories continue for Lyon and all surrounding counties until 3 pm. We could see up to half an inch of the snow-freezing drizzle mix wrapping up by late afternoon on top of the dusting to an inch of snow from Sunday and up to 1.4 inches of snow from Saturday.
We’ll keep you updated on KVOE, KVOE.com and KVOE social media. If you have schedule adjustments this week, call KVOE at 342-1400 or email kvoe@kvoe.com. Winter weather advisories continue for Lyon and all surrounding counties until 3 pm. We could see up to half an inch of the snow-freezing drizzle mix wrapping up by late afternoon on top of the dusting to an inch of snow from Sunday and up to 1.4 inches of snow from Saturday.
