Note: This story was last updated at 1:20 p.m.
Schools in Anderson County, Clinton, and Knox and Morgan counties are closed today (Monday) because of weather conditions and possible icing. And the Wildcats boys’ basketball sectional game in Kingsport, featuring Oak Ridge and Dobyns-Bennett, has been postponed to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Roane State Community College is closing its Campbell, Cumberland, Morgan, Scott, and Fentress county campuses due to icy roads. The campuses in Oak Ridge and Loudon, Knox, and Roane counties are open, but classes at the Clinton facility have been canceled.
The afternoon docket for the Anderson County General Sessions Court in Clinton has been canceled starting at 1 p.m. The afternoon docket for Anderson County Juvenile Court has also been canceled. And the Anderson County Courthouse closed at 1 p.m.
Tennessee officials said state offices will be closed the remainder of the day statewide, but mission-critical state employees will report to work as usual.
The Anderson County Schools Central Office will follow the inclement weather procedure on Monday.
The Powell-Jefferson County sectional basketball game has also been postponed to Tuesday.
On Sunday, the National Weather Service in Morristown said ice and snow accumulations were expected over much of East Tennessee and southwest Virginia late Sunday night and into Monday. Significant icing was expected over the Cumberland Mountains through mid-morning, and light snow and freezing drizzle was possible across the region through the mid-afternoon.
Hazardous travel conditions were expected along the Cumberland Mountains of southwest Virginia. Kingsport is in northeast Tennessee.
The forecast near Oak Ridge at about 10 a.m. Monday called for freezing rain, possibly mixed with snow before 2 p.m., then a chance of freezing rain. The temperature was expected to fall to about 32 by 5 p.m., with a Monday night low of 22. Little or no ice accumulation is expected near Oak Ridge, and a total daytime snow accumulation of less than half an inch is possible.
See the TSSAA Division I Class AAA Boys’ Basketball Sectional Pairings here.
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