{"id":3436,"date":"2010-11-24T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T01:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2010-11-24T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T01:18:02","slug":"news-brief-thanksgiving-travel-may-be-slick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Thanksgiving travel may be slick"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter
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\nSlippery roads won’t be taking a holiday.<\/p>\n

A winter storm watch<\/a> issued this afternoon for areas including Morton, Randle, Packwood and Ashford says up to a foot of new snow is possible beginning tomorrow and will increase in the afternoon and continue into the night as a cold front approaches.<\/p>\n

Lewis County Emergency Management is urging those who travel this holiday weekend to be sure to carry a vehicle disaster kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, a winter weather advisory<\/a> for the lowands including the lower Chehalis Valley and Southwest interior is in effect from 6 p.m. this evening until 1 p.m. tomorrow, according to a news release.<\/p>\n

Expect light snow on Thanksgiving morning, then possible sleet or light freezing rain in the afternoon and then more cold as night falls.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service cautions snow, sleet and freezing rain will make roads slippery
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Check the National Weather Service’s Forecast Office here<\/a> for the forecast in your area.<\/p>\n

Note: a link for the weather forecast website can also always be found on the right-hand sidebar of Lewis County Sirens’ homepage. It’s labeled “Weather forecasts”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Slippery roads won’t be taking a holiday. A winter storm watch issued this afternoon for areas including Morton, Randle, Packwood and Ashford says up to a foot of new snow is possible beginning tomorrow and will increase in the afternoon and continue into the night as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}