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Schools are beginning to call off afternoon and evening events as a massive weather front finally makes its way to the region.
Shelton Public Schools: All after-school activities and programs are canceled
Stamford Public Schools: All after school activities and evening events are canceled
St. Thomas Aquinas Church/School: No evening religious education classes Thursday
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has declared a snow emergency beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Cars parked on designated snow emergency streets should be removed or risk being towed. Click here for a list of the city’s designated snow emergency streets.
For all other streets, alternate side of the street parking is in effect. Wednesday is March 6 (an even-numbered day), which means you should park your car on the “even” side of the street, where the addresses are even numbers.
More info on the snow emergency is here.
A storm brewing in the Mid Atlantic could make things interesting here in a few days.
A lot can happen before Wednesday and Thursday, when the storm is expect to hit, but there’s apparently enough concern about the storm that the National Weather Service issued a briefing Monday afternoon.
Projection models show two scenarios unfolding. Either the storm will move off the Mid Atlantic coast and blow out to sea, or it will move off the coast and then turn toward New York and Connecticut.
If the latter happens, things could get bad. According to the NWS, potential impacts include heavy wet snow, moderate coastal flooding and high winds that could cause scattered outages.
Quincy Vagell, a meteorologist for WTNH, tweeted the storm could bring up to 16 inches of snow to Southwestern Connecticut and even more to the northeastern part of the state.
Again, a lot can change between now and then. We’ll keep you posted.
Greater Bridgeport Transit says it plans to resume bus service on some routes around noon on Tuesday.
There will be no service on routes that have not been fully cleared. Service is canceled on routes 7, 19 Express and 22 Express.
Riders are advised to check GBT’s website for status updates before going out. GBT says delays and detours are expected.
As southwestern Connecticut continues to dig out from the historic snowstorm, school officials have already decided enough progress won’t be made to resume classes.
Bridgeport public schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
There will be no classes Monday for Stratford’s public schools and Milford’s public and parochial schools.
For more information and updates, check our automated school closings list.
You may have noticed by now that the snowstorm headed our way is named Nemo. Perhaps when you saw that, you thought, “That’s weird, it’s not a hurricane. And when were storms A-M?”
Well last year, the Weather Channel decided it was going to start naming winter storms, mainly, the Weather Channel says, because it helps raise awareness of the storm and makes it easier to follow. Also, Europe does it, so why not?
If you see us calling the storm “Nemo,” it’s probably just because it’s shorter than “massive thunder snow blizzard,” but if we’re raising your awareness of it, all the better.
And if you think Nemo is a bad name, just be glad it’s not winter storm Walda or Yogi that’s ruining your weekend.
A great many schools and colleges in southwestern Connecticut have already announced Friday closings or early dismissals.
For a complete list, which is being updated throughout the night, visit our school closings page.
Metro-North will provide extra trains during the afternoon on Friday for customers returning home early before the snowstorm kicks into high gear.
As a result, there will be fewer trains during the evening peak. The railroad says the likelihood of cancellations will increase throughout Friday evening.
To view the revised schedule, click here to visit Metro-North’s weather service advisory page.
And According to the Associated Press, Amtrak will begin suspending its service in New York and New England ahead of Friday’s storm.
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