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Winter weather is a blast for kids

Jan 16, 2012, 4:59 PM | Updated: Jan 17, 2012, 4:08 pm

A “blast” is either a sudden, violent weather event, or an enjoyable, exciting occasion. In Western Washington, it’s both. While adults are dealing with a blast of cold, icy, snowy weather, kids are having a blast playing in the snow.

Schools do not have to make up late starts, but they do have to make up missed school days because of snow.

Find the latest public and private school, and college and university schedule change information here.

More snow days are likely for area schools Wednesday morning. A “major snow event” is in the forecast. After snow showers throughout the next 24 hours, between 4 and 8 inches of snow is expected begining around 3AM Wednesday.

Snowman

Kevin Sink, who lives in Belfair, sent me a picture of his kids enjoying the snow.

SnowKid

Actually, this little guy is not having a blast. See more MyNorthwest reader photos here.

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