A small chance of freezing rain or snow is in the forecast for Saturday after Lawrence received some additional snowfall beginning Thursday night and ending early Friday.
Estimated snowfall amounts Friday has not yet been reported, National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Poage said, but NWS had forecast that Lawrence could get 1 to 3 inches before sunrise.
Lawrence Municipal Services and Operations is responsible for treating and plowing city streets. A post from the City of Lawrence’s Facebook page on Friday morning said crews worked overnight to begin plowing priority routes and will continue Friday.
Priority first goes to high-traffic areas, such as Iowa and Sixth streets, according to the post. Crews next move to streets like Tennessee Street or Lawrence Avenue that connect to those high traffic areas. They then go to areas surrounding schools before finally addressing residential streets and cul-de-sacs.
A city map shows areas that snowplows and salt trucks have treated and how recently. That’s available at this link.
Poage said there’s currently a 20% chance of more winter precipitation in Lawrence Saturday evening. There were no projections of the amounts yet as of Friday morning.
“Right now it looks like mostly snow, but there also could be some other mixture of precipitation in there, in terms of maybe some rain or even some light freezing rain,” Poage said. “So depending on if we get that and then how much that would be, that could create a problem Saturday evening for travel.”
A low of 13° is forecast for Friday night, with the lowest wind chill at around 5° that night and on Saturday morning. The forecast for Saturday includes a high of 33° and a low of 25°. Wind gusts Saturday morning may get up to 15 mph.
See a list of closures for Friday, Jan. 10 at this link.
See links to severe weather resources and information below. See this page for more weather coverage.
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Severe weather resources
Get warm in Lawrence:
• See this page for locations to get warm during the day and overnight, where to get help for pets and more.
National Weather Service local office (Topeka):
• Find the latest weather forecast info and severe weather advisories for the Lawrence area at this link.
• In the event of rapidly changing severe weather, such as tornadoes, the NWS posts frequent updates on Twitter, @NWSTopeka. You do not need a Twitter account to see tweets from NWS.
• NWS is also on Facebook, facebook.com/NWSTopeka.
• Call 785-234-2592 to hear the forecast.
City of Lawrence snow info:
• The city has snow information and a map at lawrenceks.org/snow that shows information about road conditions and where snowplows have been. The city typically begins snow and ice control for residential roadways when 2 or more inches of snowfall or icing occurs.
Douglas County Emergency Management:
• Follow @DgCoEM on Twitter or Douglas County, KS- Emergency Management on Facebook, facebook.com/dgcoem.
• Sign up to receive emergency alerts at dgcoks.org/emalerts.
• Find lots of tips on severe weather and other emergency preparedness on DgCoEM’s website at douglascountyks.org/emergency-management.
• Report storm damage (for non-emergencies only, and after storm danger has passed) by calling the nonemergency dispatch line at 785-843-0250 or 785-832-7509.
Evergy outages:
• Check the status of power outages on the Evergy outage map, outagemap.evergy.com.
• Report a power outage at evergy.com/report-outage, or call 800-544-4857.
• For down powerlines, call Evergy’s emergency line, 800-383-1183, if above-ground lines are arcing or making contact with trees or vegetation. Call 911 immediately if overhead power lines are on the ground or a fire starts.
Air quality:
• Check the current air quality index in Lawrence and elsewhere through AirNow, airnow.gov.
Maya Hodison (she/her), equity reporter, can be reached at mhodison@lawrencekstimes.com. Read more of her work for the Times here. Check out her staff bio here.
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