Icy conditions led to school closures and cars sliding off roadways Friday, though meteorologists say the winter weather is over for now.
Forecasters are expecting temperatures to be moderate Saturday, reaching the low 40s.
“We’ve been slowly thawing out all day,” Colby Neuman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Portland, said Friday evening.
Neuman said that Saturday “will be when the snow and ice really start to go away.”
The weekend forecast calls for rain and showers, and “Sunday will be pretty wet,” Neuman said.
School districts around Clark County originally made the call to delay classes Friday, but one by one throughout the morning, they decided to cancel them.
Temperatures Friday morning were reluctant to rise above freezing, keeping ice on the roadways throughout the morning, National Weather Service Meteorologist Shawn Weagle said.
While public works crews worked throughout the county to keep the main arterials free of ice, the side streets remained slick.
Deputies with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and officers with the Vancouver Police Department didn’t go to many crashes Friday, but officers in Camas did.
Cars were sliding around on the roadways throughout the morning, Camas Police Department spokeswoman Officer Debrah Riedl said. None involved injuries, she added.
“A few cars were taking out our light posts, crashing into parked cars, going off roadways and into sidewalks,” she said.
A freezing rain advisory remained in effect throughout the day. At 3 p.m., C-Tran announced that it would not serve some stops on a Camas-Washougal route because of hazardous conditions.
Wintry weather led Waste Connections to delay garbage, recycling and yard debris services on Friday. The company said that the material will be collected Saturday.
