Warm temps keep sculptures out of Pa. ice fest

February 18, 2011 at 9:30a.m.

CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. (AP) — A winter warm-up turned one Pennsylvania town’s Festival of Ice into the Festival of Nice.

The workers running the Clarks Summit Festival of Ice opted to hold nearly all the ice sculptures out of the event’s opening festivities Thursday night because of unseasonably warm temperatures. Only one ice sculpture made it into the parade.

Organizer Laura Ancherani tells WNEP-TV that the sculptures will make their appearance this evening as temperatures begin to drop.

The National Weather Service is forecasting a high of 60 degrees for today, but Saturday’s high is expected to hover around freezing with a chance of snow.