Many secondary roads in the region remain ice-covered, and public schools will remain closed again Wednesday in Christian, Todd and Trigg counties.
But Hopkinsville Community College, which was closed Tuesday, will reopen on a regular schedule Wednesday.
For a second night, the Hopkinsville Salvation Army opened its extreme weather event shelter Tuesday in the soup kitchen. Cots are set up in the dining room for anyone needing a warm place to stay overnight.
Most areas of Western Kentucky had 1 to 2 inches of snow on Veterans Day, the National Weather Service at Paducah reported. Hopkinsville had 1.5 inches.
In some areas, the precipitation was a mix of ice and snow, and frigid temperatures kept a sheet of ice on many secondary streets and county roads.
The NWS is forecasting warmer temperatures the remainder of the week, with a high of 39 on Wednesday and 45 on Thursday.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
