Schools announce closings and delays for Monday

Published 8:58 pm Sunday, January 22, 2012

Glenville-Emmons Schools announced it will close today.

Lake Mills Community School and Northwood-Kensett Schools will both close Monday. Blooming Prairie Schools announced it will close its schools. Other schools in northern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota had similar delays and closings.

Southern Minnesota and northern Iowa are in a winter weather advisory through today. Overnight snow on Sunday was expected to amount to 1 to 3 inches, and winds are expected to increase to 15 to 18 mph with gusts as high as 26 mph.

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The National Weather Service predicted there will be blowing snow through noon today, and an accumulation of less than an inch is possible. Winds will be high with gusts as high as 32 mph.