DARE COUNTY, N.C. — Dare County Schools will be having a remote learning day and an optional work day on Thursday and Friday in preparation for Hurricane Idalia's effects.
Idalia has been upgraded to a category 3 hurricane and is forecasted to make landfall on Florida Wednesday morning where it will continue to travel across Florida, into South Georgia and then through the Carolinas, then South of Cape Hatteras.
Hampton Roads and East North Carolina could feel wind speeds in the 50 miles per hour range because of high pressure to our north meeting the low-pressure system of Idalia.
Dare County Schools announced they've decided to change the school schedules in the latter of the week: "The current estimates potentially have us feeling the effects of the storm as early as Wednesday night. As a result, Thursday will be a Remote Learning Day in all of Dare County Schools. Friday will be an Optional Workday, not a student day. Stay safe!"