Latest winter weather advisory leads to school closings in the metro east

Metro-east students got an extended President’s Day weekend when winter’s latest blast dropped snow across the region over night.

The National Weather Service office in St. Louis has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for most of the metro-east, with snowfall amounts ranging from a few inches to a foot across the region. In Belleville, the NWS is predicting an additional 2 to 4 inches through tonight.

The high temperature both today and Wednesday is expected to reach only 16 degrees.

Here’s the list of schools closed or back to e-learning on Tuesday:

Closed

Central 104 (O’Fallon)

Mascoutah 19 (early dismissal at 1:30 p.m.)

O’Fallon 203

Red Bud 132

Shiloh Village 85

Wood River-Hartford 15

E-Learning

Alton 11

Jersey 100

O’Fallon 90

This story was originally published February 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM.