Update, 1 p.m.: All after-school activities have been canceled. Students will be dismissed at the regular times, the district said.<\/p>\n
Right At School after-care will be available, but parents and guardians are encouraged to pick up their children as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
The 7 p.m. meeting of the Lower Merion Board of School Directors will still be held.<\/p>\n
ARDMORE, PA \u2014 Lower Merion Schools will move all after-school activities indoors Monday because of potentially dangerous weather, including possible tornadoes.<\/p>\n
A tornado watch in the region is in effect until 7 p.m. Monday. During that time, a few tornadoes and gusts of up to 80 mph are likely, with the possibility of hail up to a quarter-size, according to the National Weather Service’s Philadelphia\/Mount Holly office.<\/p>\n
The Lower Merion School District announced around noon that all outdoor after-school activities will be moved indoors.<\/p>\n
“District administrators will continue to monitor weather forecasts to determine if further changes or cancelations will be necessary,” the district announced. “If so, that information will be communicated to staff and families.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update, 1 p.m.: All after-school activities have been canceled. Students will be dismissed at the regular times, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-139928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}