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WORCESTER, Mass — Due to a powerful and dangerous blast of winter weather moving across the region, Worcester public schools will be closed Friday.
In a tweet Thursday afternoon, Worcester Schools announced that all classes and before and after school programs were canceled.
Due to the forecasted extreme cold and windchill tomorrow, Friday, February 3, 2023, there will be no school. Before and after school programs are also canceled. DAB will be open. @TweetWorcester pic.twitter.com/BqquwvRMWv
— Worcester Schools (@worcesterpublic) February 2, 2023
A wind chill warning watch has been issued for the Greater Boston and Greater Worcester metropolitan areas, Metrowest, as well as the North Shore from 10 a.m. on Friday through 1 p.m. on Saturday.
All of these areas will experience wind chills as low as 30-below zero. Northern Worcester and Northwest Middlesex counites could see wind chills as low as 40-below zero.
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