{"id":50071,"date":"2025-12-02T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:07:08","slug":"morning-snow-leads-to-slippery-spots-in-berks-reduced-speeds-on-interstates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50071\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning snow leads to slippery spots in Berks, reduced speeds on interstates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to this morning\u2019s snowstorm, PennDOT is temporarily reducing the speed limit on\u202fseveral area roads.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT is urging motorists to avoid unnecessary travel, but those who must head out will see speeds reduced to 45 mph onInterstates 78, 22, 80, 81, 380 and 33.<\/p>\n<p>The snow began falling about 7 a.m. in the Reading area. With temperatures hovering at or below 32 degrees, it quickly accumulated. Roads were soon snow-covered and slippery in spots.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT officials said about 8 a.m. today that while crews have been treating roads, the department\u2019s primary goal is to keep roads passable. The surfaces will not completely free of ice and snow during a storm.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT will continue to treat roads throughout the storm until precipitation stops and roads are clear, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The snow is expected to give way to rain late in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Most schools in Berks have closed for the day, although a few are having virtual instruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to this morning\u2019s snowstorm, PennDOT is temporarily reducing the speed limit on\u202fseveral area roads. PennDOT is urging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-50071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071","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=50071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}