Due to winter weather, onsite employees at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico should plan to arrive between 10 a.m. and noon local time, according to a notice posted this morning on the laboratory’s webpage.
Workers could also call a laboratory hotline for more details, according to the notice.
The Wednesday meeting of the DOE’s Northern New Mexico Citizens Advisory Board for Los Alamos has also been canceled, according to a Tuesday evening email from DOE. Snow and ice has closed elementary schools and forced other public schools to open late today, according to an online article in the Los Alamos Reporter newspaper.
The lab also opened late on Tuesday due to weather.
According to the National Weather Service website, scattered snow showers are expected to continue this morning in Los Alamos with the daytime high reaching 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Tonight’s low temperature is forecast to be 16 degrees with winds of up to 15 miles-per-hour.
The same pattern, daytime highs in the low 30s with a chance of snow showers, is expected to linger for the next few days in Los Alamos County, according to the weather service.
Meanwhile, high winds and resulting “blowing dust” are a concern around Carlsbad, N.M., and DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Daytime wind gusts could hit 55 miles per hour today and 35 miles per hour tonight, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
