{"id":6570,"date":"2024-01-29T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T15:44:34","slug":"first-snowstorm-of-2024-hits-queens-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/01\/29\/first-snowstorm-of-2024-hits-queens-county\/","title":{"rendered":"First snowstorm of 2024 hits Queens County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6568\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6568\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4139-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4139-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4139-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4139-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4139-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_4139-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queens County&#8217;s first snowstorm of 2024 closed schools Monday. Some organizations and businesses closed or delayed opening. (Rick Conrad photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Rick Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Queens County got a snow day on Monday, as the first snowstorm of 2024 hit the region.<\/p>\n<p>Schools were closed and some businesses and organizations either had delayed openings or closed for the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/ns-39_metric_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environment Canada ended its snowfall warning<\/a> for Liverpool at just after 10:30 a.m. It predicted snowfall amounts of 15 to 20 centimetres, with strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>The South Shore Regional Centre for Education closed all schools Monday morning. Reynolds Pharmasave in Liverpool and the Queens County Museum closed for the day. Some other businesses and organizations remained open.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada is predicting continued blowing snow in the afternoon and wind chill of up to -10 Celsius, with temperatures dropping further overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rick Conrad Queens County got a snow day on Monday, as the first snowstorm of 2024 hit the region. Schools were closed and some businesses and organizations either had delayed openings or closed for the day. Environment Canada ended its snowfall warning for Liverpool at just after 10:30 a.m. It predicted snowfall amounts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[25,39,49,1689,210,520,1688],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-environment-canada","tag-liverpool","tag-queens-county","tag-school-closures","tag-snowstorm","tag-south-shore-regional-centre-for-education","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6573,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}