Adding another hash mark to the record of winter disruptions on the hill, the Los Alamos National Laboratory opened late on Monday, advising essential personnel needed for national security work inside the fence to wait out some heavy snow before reporting in.
That means the roughly 20% of Los Alamos’ workforce still on site amid ongoing COVID-19 precautions was to wait until between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. mountain time to show up for work, according to a notice tweeted by the lab.
❄️ Due to heavy snow, the Laboratory is on a delayed opening for those required to work on-site. Employees who have the ability to telework should do so. Employees who normally work on-site should report on-site between 10 a.m. and noon. See details on the LANL homepage. ❄️
— Los Alamos Lab (@LosAlamosNatLab) January 19, 2021
It’s another week of wild winter weather at the birthplace of nuclear weapons, which notched a couple snow days late last year around Halloween during a western weather event that also snowed in the Sandia National Laboratories campus in Albuquerque, N.M. and deposited a crust of ice on the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas