At the Ellwood City Area school board meeting last Thursday, Feb 11, Superintendent Joe Mancini said that students will still have Monday off because there hasn’t been a snow day yet.
A few school board members responded with, “Don’t say that yet!” It was semi-prescient. Students did indeed have Monday, designated as a snow-makeup day, off. Ironically, the first snow day of the year came yesterday, giving students a four-day weekend. Both Ellwood and Riverside districts had cancellations. For Ellwood, the next snow-makeup day is March 24, the Thursday before Good Friday.
The winter storm also caused the Riverside girls basketball playoff game against Brentwood at Ambridge High School to be postponed from yesterday until tonight at 8 p.m.
For the Ellwood City area, the past two weeks are the only significant span of snowfall accumulation in what has other ways been a muddy instead of snowy winter. A few weeks ago, the Ellwood City area barely missed a winter storm that extended north to Pittsburgh. The snowfall yesterday was heavier in northern Lawrence County, with New Castle getting about 10 inches of snow according to the National Weather Service. By comparison, Ellwood City got around 7 inches.
Yesterday’s snow was also heavy in terms of weight, due to the temperature being just cold enough to form snow, making shoveling difficult.
The snow is projected to not last. According to the Weather Channel forecast, Friday is projected to have a high of 50 degrees, over 50 degrees warmer than last Friday, and will remain warm over the weekend.
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