Non-essential day-shift personnel at the Pantex Plant got a two-hour delay on Monday because of foul weather including ice and snow in the Texas panhandle, the site said.
Amarillo, Texas, and the rest of the High Plains region — plus many points east — chilled down rapidly on Monday after a warm-to-seasonable weekend, and the area remained winter storm warning at deadline Monday.
The country’s nuclear-weapons maintenance hub was the meat of an extreme-weather sandwich at deadline: to the West, winter storms in the Rockies and high winds throughout much of California; to the South and East, Tropical Storm Zeta gathered strength in the Gulf of Mexico and appeared poised to sweep inland, according to data from the National Weather Service.
The worst of the storm, at least, appeared poised to miss the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.: a perennial target during the Atlantic tropical storm season, weather service data show. The area along the border of South Carolina and Georgia is bracing for a lot of rain, however.
