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Wintry weather causing school closures in Okotoks

Hazardous winter driving conditions prompting school closures in Okotoks. Gil Tucker / Global News

Wintry weather and hazardous road conditions prompted the closure of two schools in Okotoks Wednesday.

At Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, school officials said the school is closed due to “extremely hazardous road conditions” in the area.

Edison School in Okotoks is also closed.

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As of Wednesday morning at around 9 a.m., Environment Canada’s snowfall warning alert had ended for much of southern Alberta, including Okotoks and Calgary.

Rural school buses are not running in the Foothills School division in High River but schools still remain open. School buses are not running at Renfrew Educational Services either. Those schools also remain open.

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