weatherpruf

If they have a lot of bussed students, they have to stagger times to have enough transportation. Special ed students often start even earlier because they often have to travel to schools across town, as there aren't programs in every school. Some even have to travel to other districts an hour away.

SIL just sent me pics of it snowing in Kennesaw GA. In my anecdotal experience, when the South gets good snows, it's usually a dud winter around here. 2002 comes to mind.

This is true for older students, who actually need more rest. Younger kids can start earlier.

When I began teaching in the late 80s there were a lot of mid career teachers who had been working when they kept daylight savings time in the early 70s to save on energy ( IIRC ). One told me they'd sit there in first period and watch the sunrise....no one liked it one bit.

They can't afford the property taxes.

I think the last good winter here was 2021; we can hope for is one or two decent events, like last year. Don't need 60 inches to make a good winter IMO.

We had a downed pole on route 9 yesterday that remained closed all day, snarling traffic to the NJTPK into Manhattan because the high winds precluded the linesmen from proper repairs. What a mess.

Odd

Medicine is also an art; I remember a doctor telling me my labs were fine but I looked like crap. I was like, is that your second opinion? ( all hail Rodney Dangerfield ).

Anecdotally over the years, as an angler and seafarer we have noted that moons often accompany bad weather events.

I'll take some mood flakes. One of these puppies is gonna hit us.

Just noticed it now that you posted this. Should have delayed my morning walk. Waiting for a new oven, you know how that is...they either come sooner than you expected or keep calling saying they are delayed....

93-94 will always be a standout; we mention it every year and I guess a lot of people here were too young, but what a mess of nasty snow and ice. I mean, ice that was inches thick.....i could not get to my car....fell on my ass twice. You needed crampons and an ice pick....

I think you may have mixed up your years; 2010-11 we had three KUs, Boxing Day, then one in Jan that we got 9 from but CT was buried, and another in Jan that delivered 19 inches. And then it was all over for the year. So really, in a La Nina, we're probably actually running out of time already for a big winter. But every year is different.

It was the only one that March that hit our area good, but I don't think Woodbridge managed more than a foot. I think we measured around 10 and change. Which is a good storm any time in my book. Two footers are rare, and lethal. Even last Feb I had to break out the pack boots and get the big snowblower out of mothballs, and that was just under a foot.

He was talking NYC, mostly Manhattan really, but it's been pretty true for my area as well. Green Brook is pretty far out, and the elevation matters there; I have seen snow at Washington Rock but not down at 22.

That was awful. Just sleet in my area. Turned over very quickly. Rule of thumb is March does not deliver more than 11 inches in the modern era, and no less than Mitch Volk weighed in the night before and indicated he wasn't buying the deep snows for us.

We'll get one, maybe two or more. Long way to go. We managed a few weeks ago, that can happen again.

on 2/6/10 many were still saying parts of the area would get 6-12, so the cutoff, which seemed to follow the NJTPK north, was more painful as we really only managed about 2-3 in my area, though someone in SI has always claimed they got 6, which is hard to believe, unless the very southern tip, which is minutes from me, managed to get a 6 inch drift...it looked like a Lilliputian blizzard outside my door, with 4 inch drifts from around 2-3 inches that fell. As one drove south on the turnpike, you could see the amounts going up, till I got to Cherry Hill and there was 2 feet. My area never got a direct hit that whole winter, though we had some good 10-12 events.

Weather is something to be experienced, in my view. A storm happening elsewhere is only of academic interest to people who study that sort of thing. If it snows in Toms River but not up here I only care if I have to drive there. If I want to watch snow on TV I can turn on the weather channel ,it's sure to be snowing somewhere....but that's just my own personal bias.

Wasn't much here in this part of NJ; west of Newark the bands hit a brick wall.

FWIW my wife was in Hamilton and it was snow covered.

The MSM has become useless. That should be plainly evident by now. I get better weather info here.

Surprised there were 5...I'd guess 82, 83, and 87. Here in CNJ I can't think of any other 80s winters with any significant events. 89 in S Jersey maybe. Don't remember 80 too well, but never had a snow day in HS ( only in 1978, none of the other years, graduated in 81 ). Taught starting in 89 and had no snow days until 1993, the March storm. After that we had epic 94, 96, and then zilch again until the aughts. So it was much snowier the last two decades than I remember as a kid. Jim McGreevy, in his bio, writes about his struggles as mayor of Woodbridge with all the snow in 94, more than he ever remembered as a child. That is accurate, and that winter hit everyone with their pants down; snow shovels with rotten wooden handles and rusty blades were dug up from under junk in garages, snowblowers were brought out of mothballs ( and didn't work ) as they were not usable in the previous 93 storm ice, and you could not buy salt, even table salt, sand or kitty litter, as Home Depot had not swallowed the market yet. Good times.

Yellow perch? Or white?