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For example, schools may open school on some federal holidays, shorten spring break, or sometimes make the school year end later. However, some schools are more forgiving, and do not mandate make-up days. In the event of heavy snow, tools have arisen to help students calculate the chance of a weather-related cancellation, most commonly snow days.
With snow, ice and bitterly cold temperatures, Kansas City area schools closed their doors on Friday for the third day this week. Some districts have held typical snow days, allowing students to ...
The CoCoRaHS logo. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, is a network of volunteer weather observers in the United States, Canada, and the Bahamas that take daily readings of precipitation and report them to a central data store over the Internet. The program is an example of citizen science.
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information. It is a part of the National Oceanic and ...
The future of the snow day. While remote learning may be touted as a viable alternative to learning in school, research from the Northwest Evaluation Association shows that schools that had remote ...
After having last Monday off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the vast majority of students in the local school districts ended up having the rest of the week off due to the snow and ice; and they ...
The blizzard came unexpectedly on a relatively warm day, and many people were caught unaware, including children in one-room schoolhouses. The weather prediction for the day was issued by the Weather Bureau, which at the time was managed by Brigadier General Adolphus Greely. The indications officer (forecaster), Lieutenant Thomas Mayhew ...
Some of the highest snowfall totals were forecast for the northern suburbs of New York City and southwestern Connecticut, where 12 to 15 inches (30 to 38 centimeters) were possible, according to ...