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Students in balmy Bozeman may be feeling a bit left out as schools across the nation are closed in the face of a massive arctic cold front. The governor of Minnesota closed all kindergarten to 12th-grade schools. Virtually all public schools were closed in Chicago, where a low of 16 below zero was recorded. Schools closed in Cleveland and St. Louis.
When I was growing up in south-central British Columbia the schools were always open, but the buses didn't run if the temperature below -34C/-30F. Then one day in the late 80s they changed the number to -32C. Not sure why... I guess it's because we have become a nation of wimps. It's a fact Canadians (and others as well) were made of tougher material back then... Michael Den Tandt: Canadians were made of tougher material back in the day. It’s a fact | National Post
There was a series done up by Channel 4, the U.K's version of our PBS, hosted by Nick Middleton called Going to Extremes. In it, he talks of a small village in Siberia called Oimyakon and another called Verkhoyansk. Neither are very big and both have average January temperatures around -50 (that's in C, folks).
According to Dr. Middleton's narration, the larger and warmer of the two shut their schools down when the temperature falls below -60C (or -65C, can't remember which) for a morning low. That translates to -76 (or -85) in Fahrenheit.
My school had a policy of never closing for weather, but in practice whenever we had more than about 10 cm (not often enough in the crappy late 90s / early 00s mild winters!) so many people would use the snow as an excuse not to turn up that it wasn't worth going in anyway.
When I was growing up in south-central British Columbia the schools were always open, but the buses didn't run if the temperature below -34C/-30F. Then one day in the late 80s they changed the number to -32C. Not sure why... I guess it's because we have become a nation of wimps. It's a fact Canadians (and others as well) were made of tougher material back then... Michael Den Tandt: Canadians were made of tougher material back in the day. It’s a fact | National Post
Do you mean as in negative 30? Does it really get that cold there or is that a joke which means schools are never closed in BC. I thought BC was milder like Northern or Midlands England with average lows between 30 and 35F at night *depending how close to the coast you are*
Do you mean as in negative 30? Does it really get that cold there or is that a joke which means schools are never closed in BC. I thought BC was milder like Northern or Midlands England with average lows between 30 and 35F at night *depending how close to the coast you are*
Mild on average, but it can get cold inland. If you are 100 miles from the Ocean, it can get down to -40 or even -50 in some spots. Puntzi at 52N is only 85 miles from the Ocean, and can get down to -63F/-53C.
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