The America250PA’s Schuylkill County Kick-Off and Carbon County Kick-Off have been canceled for today.

At this time, no rescheduling information is available.

Due to the winter storm impacting the region, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is temporarily reducing the speed limit on several area roadways in the east central region.

PennDOT is urging motorists to avoid unnecessary travel, but those who must head out will see speeds reduced to 45 mph on the following highways:

• Interstate 78 in Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties.

• Interstate 80 in Carbon and Monroe counties.

• Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County.

• Interstate 380 in Monroe County.

• US 22 in Lehigh and Northampton counties.

• Route 33 in Monroe and Northampton counties.

On roadways with speed restrictions, commercial vehicles not affected by restrictions on these or other roadways must move to the right lane.

Although PennDOT crews have been treating roadways, the department’s primary goal is to keep roads passable, and they will not completely free of ice and snow. PennDOT will continue to treat roadways throughout the storm until precipitation stops and roads are clear.

While PennDOT recommends not traveling during winter storms, motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles, including color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 miles, by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,200 traffic cameras.

Send your snow photos to tneditor@tnonline.com. Be sure to include names of people in the photo and note where the photo is taken.