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An overnight snow shower dropped on the Mid-Missouri region with about an inch of snow, and the white stuff kept coming through Monday afternoon, totaling about three inches.
The inclement weather was enough to call off school in Blackwater, Boonville, Fayette, Pilot Grove and Prairie Home, among other schools. Today, Glasgow schools functioned on a late start schedule, where classes began at 10 a.m.
Boonville Public Works Director M.L. Cauthon curbed any dangerous roads by getting an early start on preparing streets.
"About five or so yesterday (Monday) morning, we pretreated by putting down salt," said Cauthon. Crews plowed as the snow accumulated on roadways around 8 a.m. and again when the snow picked up again in the early afternoon.
"We got it all done within the workday," he said, adding that above-freezing overnight temperatures kept ice at bay.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol noted no accidents as a result of Monday's snow in Cooper or Howard Counties, and the Boonville Fire Department responded to no motor vehicle accidents.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes a sharp decline in the amount of snow this winter as compared to last winter. Heavy precipitation in a Feb. 2, 2011 storm piled snow in drifts three to five feet and shut down schools and civic institutions for the better part of a week.
Around the state, Monday's snow shower left about three inches in the St. Louis area and more than four in Jefferson City.
An overnight snow shower dropped on the Mid-Missouri region with about an inch of snow, and the white stuff kept coming through Monday afternoon, totaling about three inches.
The inclement weather was enough to call off school in Blackwater, Boonville, Fayette, Pilot Grove and Prairie Home, among other schools. Today, Glasgow schools functioned on a late start schedule, where classes began at 10 a.m.
Boonville Public Works Director M.L. Cauthon curbed any dangerous roads by getting an early start on preparing streets.
"About five or so yesterday (Monday) morning, we pretreated by putting down salt," said Cauthon. Crews plowed as the snow accumulated on roadways around 8 a.m. and again when the snow picked up again in the early afternoon.
"We got it all done within the workday," he said, adding that above-freezing overnight temperatures kept ice at bay.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol noted no accidents as a result of Monday's snow in Cooper or Howard Counties, and the Boonville Fire Department responded to no motor vehicle accidents.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes a sharp decline in the amount of snow this winter as compared to last winter. Heavy precipitation in a Feb. 2, 2011 storm piled snow in drifts three to five feet and shut down schools and civic institutions for the better part of a week.
Around the state, Monday's snow shower left about three inches in the St. Louis area and more than four in Jefferson City.
