WEATHER NEWS

SUMMARY: Condition 1. UNC-Chapel Hill open on regular schedule Thursday.

CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be open on a regular operating schedule Thursday (Jan. 29).

Classes will be held for students, and campus offices will be open. Employees are reminded of the university’s adverse weather policy. Details about that policy are at http://hr.unc.edu/Data/SPA/leave/adverseweatherleave.htm.

The university reopened today at 10 a.m. – with classes being held and offices being open -- after being closed Monday and delaying opening until 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

More information about the university’s status is available at www.unc.edu, the main university Web page, or the Department of Public Safety Web site http://www.dps.unc.edu/dps/.

Members of the university community also can call (919) 843-1234 for recorded information and announcements about campus operations. Similar information also is broadcast on the university’s Traveler's Information System, 1610 AM, near the main campus area. Details on the condition of campus parking lots and the status of Chapel Hill Transit are available at the Department of Public Safety Web site http://www.dps.unc.edu/dps/.

The university uses three operating conditions in adverse weather: Condition I (open), Condition II (classes cancelled; offices open) or Condition III (classes cancelled; offices closed). Reports of state government closings do not apply to the University.

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