districts around here used to do blizzard bags, before the pandemic... around that time most had gotten chromebooks for all their students, so they now just have a "remote learning day"
School Closing Because of Predicted Weather?
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As for the weatherpeople sucking. I've started watching Ryan Hall, he generally live streams during weather events and seems to do a decent job of keeping up with warnings:
The kids aren't making these decisions, it's the superintendents. No school due to weather also means the rest of the staff do not have to come in as well, so this affects more than just the students.
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This looks exactly like the City of Mayfield, Kentucky which was destroyed two years ago. My sister lives there. They have just now started to rebuild the downtown area. I grew up on the Florida West Coast and I've seen my share of destruction from tornadoes and hurricanes but I had never seen the type of devastation I saw when I went to see my sister shortly after the Mayfield storm.
That EF-5 tornado in Moore OK in 2013 killed 7 young elementary school children…
That tornado hit a little after 3 pm… Mpst of the children had been sent out of the school. Though a number of them were still there.
As bad a 7 children dying… Let’s imagine that hitting a school that was full of children… Or high school students….
Cowering in a hallway… Many of them would die. Guaranteed.. Look what the 2011 Joplin Tornado did… Flat leveled schools..
Death toll there could be 100s dead. And that ain’t no exaggeration. . In a school with 1,000 to 2,000 students and a direct hit from a EF-4 or EF-5… In Oklahoma City or Moore… Or Kansas City, Dallas, St Louis etc etc…
It’s a matter of time before this happens.
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Fun fact to add…
99 percent of tornado deaths are in EF-3 and higher tornadoes…
The weaker ones seldom kill people all that often. Can happen but very, very unlikely.
By the way in April 2011 we had a EF-3 tornado hit our middle school in Gloucester county on a Saturday afternoon. Thank goodness … And yes.. It flattened the old C hall section of that school. Where I had Spanish class, Government class, and a Drafting class and Home Ec. That video was all over the national news the next day.
99 percent of tornado deaths are in EF-3 and higher tornadoes…
The weaker ones seldom kill people all that often. Can happen but very, very unlikely.
By the way in April 2011 we had a EF-3 tornado hit our middle school in Gloucester county on a Saturday afternoon. Thank goodness … And yes.. It flattened the old C hall section of that school. Where I had Spanish class, Government class, and a Drafting class and Home Ec. That video was all over the national news the next day.
Yes and no to that…
Yes.. Vast improvement on overall large synoptic pattern prediction 2-3 days ahead? Absolutely way way better.
Yes to 1 day before prediction of overall pattern ? Yes absolutely vastly improved.
Yes to earlier identification of violent tornadoes early in with the advent of wind direction radar which can easily show a strong circulation with in bound and out bound winds observed from the radar site. And the interpol radar gives a distinct signature of debris being lifted high into the atmosphere too.
No … To being able to predict which exact storm or storms will develop into dangerous EF-3 or stronger tornadoes.. To be fair this is incredibly difficult to do and many factors go into creating a monster tornado and.. It maintaining high intensity for a long track on the ground.
The goose that lays the proverbial golden egg will be when forecasters are able to identify very early on when a storm has the right localized conditions to create a long track violent tornado. Where it can maintain a perfect balance between the cold air rear flank down draft on the storm’s north and west side and the warm in flow air from the storms south and southeast.. That’s what creates a violent tornado and IF maintained proper balance leads to long track violent tornadoes.
And that type of research is what Tim Samaris and his guys RIP were trying to study and figure out. Along with the Vortex crews as well.
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I remember as a kid with bad snow looking out the front bay window listening to the AM radio waiting for the school announcement list of school clousers. It went alphabetical if you missed your school you had to wait for them to announce the list all over again.
They close the schools here if there is ANY snow whether it sticks or not. The busses won't run that day.
Very common now, they close schools anytime there is a chance of a storm. Yeah ... I know ...
where is "here"?
South Louisiana .
A coworker’s spouse is a school Superintendent in a school district with wealthy kids. Lots of lawyers for parents who aren’t afraid to sue should a “poor” decision (meaning one they disagree with) be made and a kid get put in danger. Better safe than sorry.
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