Geos Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Some Wisconsin schools are discussing some alternative ways to make up school days apart from tacking them on in June. http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Schools-looking-at-ways-to-make-up-lost-days-241955291.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magoos0728 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Kenosha Unified goes with a -34 degree wind chill for closing schools. What makes Kenosha unique is the high amount of students who walk to school each day-couple that with kids waiting at the bus stop (working parents can't wait at the stop with kids in the car)and the decision to close becomes easy. How they came to the -34 WC decision is beyond me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Wow!! How often does that happen? First closure since I've been here. I think they got a day off for GHD, but I don't know about anything from before then. There may have been one in 2007? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTWeatherFan Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 First closure since I've been here. I think they got a day off for GHD, but I don't know about anything from before then. There may have been one in 2007? Gotcha. Michigan hasn't had one since the 1978 Cleveland Superbomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Valpo closed Monday and Tuesday. Wow!! How often does that happen? Too bad Michigan never closes. Ever. (they have twice... Jan 1978 and 1945) Edit: you already know I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTWeatherFan Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Too bad Michigan never closes. Ever. (they have twice... Jan 1978 and 1945) Edit: you already know I guess Didn't know about 1945. What prompted that one?Anyway NWS says high of 5F Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxMidwest Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Hmm Valpo will be closed for MN/TS, wonder if NIU will go the same route... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Gotcha. Michigan hasn't had one since the 1978 Cleveland Superbomb. Too bad Michigan never closes. Ever. (they have twice... Jan 1978 and 1945) Edit: you already know I guess I heard once that the last closure before 2011 was 1987, but I don't know if that's true. In the past few years our commuter population has swelled, which also has to be taken into account, as well as that for cold days, Michigan usually doesn't get as cold as northern Indiana with all the lake modification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Kenosha Unified goes with a -34 degree wind chill for closing schools. What makes Kenosha unique is the high amount of students who walk to school each day-couple that with kids waiting at the bus stop (working parents can't wait at the stop with kids in the car)and the decision to close becomes easy. How they came to the -34 WC decision is beyond me... Yeah I knew about that too. Looks like Tuesday will be the day they would close, over Monday. "Only" -20- -25° WC predicted Monday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 I'm hoping for another snow day. The teachers are getting antsy, but I work all year round so I don't have to make up days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Too bad Michigan never closes. Ever. (they have twice... Jan 1978 and 1945) Edit: you already know I guess Didn't know about 1945. What prompted that one? Anyway NWS says high of 5F Tuesday. I found an article that says it closed in 1945 and actually 1974 too... But I can't find why. The all being said they generally do a pretty commendable job here keeping the streets plowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestChaser Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 I found an article that says it closed in 1945 and actually 1974 too... But I can't find why. The all being said they generally do a pretty commendable job here keeping the streets plowed V-E day maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 I'm hoping for another snow day. The teachers are getting antsy, but I work all year round so I don't have to make up days. Same for me at my work (school). This is really making our statewide ISTEP+ testing schedule go to crap though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Loving the cold I'd have to say. 'Normal' weather is just boring for me. Give me some extremes to spice it up. Something about the feeling of having to brave the elements, it just makes you feel alive. Sundogs two days in a row now. Definitely noticing the insanity starting to build in the general public. Amazing how weather controls so many aspects of our lives, right down to the mental state. I have to agree in some respects, normal weather I don't actually care for. I hate extreme cold but when crazy stats start popping and unusual effects become apparent, I don't mind it . The second part is a part of why I love weather, it affects every human on earth and can influence everything. Mental state changing because of it is 100% true, heatwaves do something for me nothing else can...makes me extremely happy everytime. Too bad Michigan never closes. Ever. (they have twice... Jan 1978 and 1945) Edit: you already know I guess I get WDIV Local 4 and other Detroit stations and there are closures from time to time in the city and outside...what is being conveyed here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Goin to see if I can find a couch burning to huddle around after the Michigan win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo6899 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Goin to see if I can find a couch burning to huddle around after the Michigan win sure their are plenty to choose from. Give the furnace a break tonight.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Goin to see if I can find a couch burning to huddle around after the Michigan win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Steady near 6° here. Thinking that's about the low for tonight with clouds continuing to thicken up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 I'm down to about 5 above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Latest NWS hourly graph has LAF below zero from 8:00AM Monday until 10:00AM Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Latest NWS hourly graph has LAF below zero from 8:00AM Monday until 10:00AM Wednesday. Really hope we can snag a below zero high out of this on Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Really hope we can snag a below zero high out of this on Tuesday. Most definitely. BTW, hourly graph had a min temp of -17º for Tuesday morning. I'd really like to hit -20º, but I know it'll be tough unless things set up perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnesota Meso Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 My graphical forecast from MPX has me at -27 for Tuesday morning. I'm about 15 miles NNW as the crow flies from MSP, while not technically in the core of the MSP metro area (ie not inside the 494-694 loop), this is still a well developed area with a rather dense population. I shudder when I think how cold it could get to my nw, say about 5 miles. For those that want to check where I'm at goggle Champlin, MN Edit: with wind chill at -48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Gotcha. Michigan hasn't had one since the 1978 Cleveland Superbomb. Too bad Michigan never closes. Ever. (they have twice... Jan 1978 and 1945) Edit: you already know I guess Central Michigan University was like that too until 2008, someone slipped and got injured on an icy day. We ended up having 4 snow days that year, and the last one before then was the 78 Blizzard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 00z GGEM goes nuts here again with temps on Tuesday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnesota Meso Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 00z GGEM goes nuts here again with temps on Tuesday morning. Map please if you are allowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnesota Meso Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 0z GGEM that I have, coldest temps of course will be where the new snowfall is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 what happened to Geos...between Tim and I the apartment on DD Lane is already kind of cramped. Like me he is tired of the cold, so now he's anti-cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Lol, it was actually 31° around 2am today. After falling on rock hard ice on Thursday (did not feel good), I'm wishing for 20s at least now. Plus I've had to deal with 2 frozen pipes already this month. Cold and dry has never really done it for me. - Palm trees won't be appearing in my posts, lol. Don't worry. It's no problem, but when posts are biased and using the models and reasoning that benefits what you want, that will be called out as wishcasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveNay Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 06Z GFS has pulled the coldest temps much further north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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