By RICK KRON
Leader staff writer
Through the first four days of February, the area has seen more precipitation than all of January and more school closings.
Rain, ice, freezing rain, sleet or snow fell the first three out of four days this month, with almost 1.5 inches hitting central Arkansas on Sunday and another inch falling on Tuesday. More is expected by the weekend in the form of sleet, ice and snow.
Through the first four days of February, close to 3 inches of precipitation hit locally, compared with 1.42 inches for all of January.
Also, no school days were cancelled in January.On Tuesday, Pulaski County Special School District, Cabot, Beebe, Lonoke, Searcy and Carlisle all cancelled school because of the morning ice storm. School officials did not want to see a repeat of what happened last week in Atlanta, where students spent a night in schools and on buses because an ice storm snarled all the roads.
Area wrecker services said they had some weather-related calls, but — for the most part — it was a quiet day. Jacksonville police had no accident reports related to Tuesday morning’s freezing rain and ice.
The National Weather forecast calls for high temperatures around freezing for most of the week, and the system coming in Friday and Saturday will bring in more wintry weather.
Electrical power outages numbered 464 in Lonoke County, 20 in Butlerville and 42,000 throughout the state.
