Thursday marked the area’s tenth day high temperatures below 20 degrees. With temperatures predicted to fall as low as -20 degrees by the morning, the Anchor Bay School District announced the cancellation of Friday classes yesterday night. According to the district’s Twitter feed, “All UCS schools will be closed on Friday, January 5 due to extreme temperatures.”
After nearly two weeks of arctic blast temperatures, Utica joins schools across Metro Detroit and beyond that announced closures. Temperatures have hovered around zero for ten days, causing two tragic deaths when elderly women with demential wandered into the snow and succumbed to the cold in Roseville and Shelby Township earlier this week.
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