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Enough with the cancellation BS. John(FXWX) explained things perfectly a while back. All It takes is one little mishap, and a kid gets hurt, and say good bye to your job as as superintendent. And a massive law suit for the town/city. If I was in that job I’d cancel too…not going down from sue happy folks. Lots of districts, including mine, had a half day already planned, and the onset of frozen precip here inland was going to coincide with dismissal and travel during that window. If we had a full day here…I think we wouldn’t have had a cancellation. But we were slated to get out early and that’s what prompted the cancellation. If folks weren’t so lawsuit happy, maybe it would be different..but it isn’t. So that’s why it is the way it is. Our superintendent made a bad call his first year in, and he had us going in in the morning during a freezing drizzle event in early January, that came out of nowhere, and it was a total disaster of a morning. The parents and teachers wanted to hang the guy. He said never again…and I don’t blame the poor guy. It ain’t worth the hassle, and potential loss of your job.

I saw the same thing that you did, and decided to head to the office a little later this morning than normal. There was also an accident on 30 just west of the 441 exit in West Hempfield. All of it was cleared when I came in this morning.

Regarding schools closing I can tell you that some of it is simply that some systems don't have the maintenance staff that they did a decade or two ago. I've seen it myself in a couple systems where I do electrical maintenance. They can't keep up with stairs and sidewalks let alone parking lots. And then of course there's always our litigious society

Once you get to 3/15 and beyond, it’s very late/rare for snowstorms south of New England. Can it happen? Yes. Has it happened? Yes. Can you totally rule it out? Obviously not. Would I bet on it? No. It takes an extremely anomalous, freak event at that point

Absolutely beautiful outside right now. Feels like t-shirt weather after the past 48 hours. -8F this AM and now 32F. We’ve recovered 40 degrees before noon.

Someone inform him we update the normals every 10 years

just pulls nonsense out of his ass constantly

What a wild difference between the op and AI. 85 or 33 and ra/zr for methuen

snow has started here

oh they had plenty of time for that too....they are also on track to be done with school by May 15th, earlier if they want to by doing some extra work each day. They also get mandatory hiking days in the spring when the weather is nice

Once you see the models with a 979 bomb off of Hatteras with a well below normal airmass mid March, you'll be right back.

This guy continues to be a shitstain to the field. https://x.com/meteomark/status/2028846555336249728?s=46

Shot up to 30 here from a low of 14, but has leveled off. I'm thinking I'm going to be on the warmer side of 32 for most of this event, but we'll see.

I didn’t say it was bad everyday lol. You guys need to re-read what I wrote. I said the model has various impulses moving through every other day on average? Which was objectively true

I didn’t say everyday lol

Oh wow good to know. I saw it on the Lancaster incidents map and then checked google traffic where it said it would reopen at 12:30 but I guess that was just a conservative estimate and they got it cleared much quicker.

Sucks for them…poor kids. What kid wants to be doing school work as a blizzard is Raging outside.

yeah, has the feeling of a lot of 33 and rain around here.....if this was early February and not March sure, my solar panels are producing pretty well currently despite clouds and light snow falling

Once I get a taste of near 80 next week, it’s over.

I think it’s more about sidewalks and lots and Drieways a lot of slip risk with the kids when they get dismissed “IF” the cold holds.. still not sold as I’m up to 31 here

Desert

We still got 3 more weeks to get a late comeback Let's do it.

And that was my point…what is he looking at? The downer syndrome that he has, must distort his ability to see what is actually going on. Ya hate to see it.