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We're tracking the latest updates, from the forecast to powerfulness outages to roadworthy conditions, passim the week.
DALLAS — North Texas was nether a wintertime tempest informing starting Monday, arsenic crystal and freezing rainfall were expected to origin hazardous driving conditions crossed the area.
We're tracking the latest updates, from the forecast to powerfulness outages to roadworthy conditions, passim the week.
Here's what we know:
Latest DFW Forecast
The Winter Storm Watch has been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. It runs until 6 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Rounds of freezing rainfall and perchance immoderate sleet arsenic good with accumulations of crystal ranging from .10 inches to .50 inches crossed the area.
Watch our unrecorded radar:
North Texas schoolhouse closings and delays
Many schoolhouse districts successful North Texas volition beryllium closed Tuesday owed to the expected upwind conditions.
School districts similar Azle, Granbury, Castleberry and Brock were closed wholly connected Monday, portion galore different districts canceled after-school activities.
Several districts similar Dallas ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Southlake-Carroll ISD, Plano ISD and Frisco ISD said they volition beryllium closed Tuesday.
Parkland Health announced respective closures of its clinics connected Jan. 31. The clinics that volition beryllium closed include
- Community Oriented Primary Care Health Centers (COPCs)
- Acute Response Clinics (ARCs)
- Women’s Health Centers
- Youth & Family Centers
- Moody Outpatient Clinics
- WISH Clinics
- Hospital-based and offsite outpatient specialty clinics
- Ron J. Anderson, MD Clinics (RJA)*
- Homeless outreach locations (HOMES)
- Comprehensive Breast Center
- Employee Health Center and Employee Women’s Wellness Center
- Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic
DFW Road Conditions
Road conditions were opening to deteriorate successful occidental areas of North Texas, prompting schoolhouse closures successful Parker County and successful White Settlement, westbound of Fort Worth.
Lake Worth constabulary astir 6:45 a.m. were reporting icy roads passim the city, including on Texas 199, Loop 820 and Farm Road 1220.
#LWPDAlert // ICY CONDITIONS
Officers are reporting wide icy roadworthy conditions passim the city, including SH 199, I-820, and FM 1220 (Boat Club Road/ Azle Ave.) If you indispensable beryllium out, PLEASE usage caution!
The Fort Worth Fire Department by 7 a.m. was responding to dozens of mishap calls crossed the city, peculiarly connected the westbound and northwest broadside of the city. In 1 crash, an 18-wheeler slid disconnected U.S. 287 astatine Blue Mound Road connected the northwest broadside of the city. The operator was taken to a infirmary successful chartless condition.
Denton roads worsened Monday morning. Police determination said they were responding to much than 20 crashes, and crews were moving to soil bridges and overpasses.
Stay disconnected the roadworthy cousins! I cognize immoderate of you person to get to work, truthful if that's the case, DRIVE SLOW! Multiple issues crossed the metroplex this morning. @wfaa @wfaadaybreak
Denton County:
⚠️35E NB @ Justin Road
⚠️35E SB @ Highland Village
⚠️35E NB @ Mayhill
⚠️35E SB @ US 377 pic.twitter.com/MKGE21VFSL
Shortly earlier noon, each DFW TEXpress lanes were unopen down by TxDOT owed to the slick conditions.
By the afternoon, respective rounds of sleet connected the occidental broadside of North Texas covered roadways and road shoulders.
Warming shelters
Warming shelters are opening passim North Texas arsenic temperatures driblet to freezing levels.
Information beneath is from the Salvation Army:
Shelters are opened erstwhile temperatures scope 36 degrees oregon below, consistently. Each structure is pursuing guidelines by the metropolis and the county. Exact protocols whitethorn alteration depending connected location.
- In Collin County, the McKinney Corps and Plano Corps are activated for inclement upwind shelter.
- In Dallas County, the Garland Corps and Carr P. Collins Social Service Center are activated for inclement upwind shelter.
- In Tarrant County, the Arlington Corps is activated for inclement upwind shelter. The J.E. & L.E. Mabee Social Service Center is connected standby and prepared to service families successful the country arsenic the request arises.
- In Denton County, the Denton Corps is connected standby and prepared to service families successful the country arsenic the request arises. The Lewisville Corps is connected standby for inclement upwind structure and additionally supplies staff, transportation, volunteers, and much to the Relevant Life Church, which is the designated overnight acold upwind structure tract for the area.
Dallas:
Denton:
Power Outages
Power outages weren't wide arsenic of 1 p.m. Monday, according to Oncor's outage map, which was reporting 793 impacted customers.
DFW, Love Field flights
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field were seeing mean impacts Monday, though it wasn't wide if upwind was yet to blame.
DFW was reporting 126 cancellations by 1 p.m., and Love Field had 106 cancellations, according to Flight Aware. Nationwide, Dallas-based Southwest had 332 cancellations and Fort Worth-based American Airlines had 176 cancellations.
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