Wednesday is  Cold Weather Awareness Day in Kansas and a Winter Weather Advisory is posted for western Kansas Thursday and Friday. 

The Hays Parks Department is one step ahead and has already closed its park restrooms.

Jeff Boyle, Director of Parks, says the laborious project project includes shutting off drinking water fountains:

The Parks Department will reopen the restrooms and water fountains next spring as soon as warm weather permits.

Boyle says that requires  a consistent pattern of non-freezing nighttime temperatures.