Too early to talk about Tuesday weather

[Anonymous]

Seeing snow during morning commute…

[Anonymous]

I see 6-7” but I’m north of you… this is too early for this kind of snow

[Anonymous]

Meteorologists have been predicting a less-snowy weather than average. They could be wrong, of course, because a few miles can make the difference between a winter storm and some passing snowflakes... but the MAIN thing is DO NOT TRUST WEATHER APPS. For accurate snow predictions you need to listen to meterologists: for example, those at Capital Weather Gang (WaPo), or those on American Weather Forum online, etc... There are some decent met-adjacent presenters on TV, but a lot of them will be tempted to just look at apps and say "oh look, we could be getting as much as 3 feet!". When all along they know it's going to be 3 inches max.

[Anonymous]

winter, not weather

[Anonymous]

The meteorologists I follow have been predicting more snow than usual this winter

[Anonymous]

I hate winter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate winter.

Aww, does it mean you have to actually do your job as a parent rather than rely on schools to do it for you? So precious.

[Anonymous]

CWG says rain.

[Anonymous]

MCPS teacher and parent here. I like a couple of snow days, but the stress due to MCPS not building them into the schedule has me worrying about how late it will go into the summer if we have a lot of snow. Why can’t they build in the days like Fairfax county? Every year it’s like this.

[Anonymous]

I am told that we only have 1 snow day build into the calendar, and the last day of school is expected June 17th (Wednesday). I hope we don't get to use the snow day that early.

[Anonymous]

They should just cancel now so I can plan.

[Anonymous]

All I’m seeing is rain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher and parent here. I like a couple of snow days, but the stress due to MCPS not building them into the schedule has me worrying about how late it will go into the summer if we have a lot of snow. Why can’t they build in the days like Fairfax county? Every year it’s like this.

We used to have more extra days built into the calendar. When my first was in kindergarten, we had 184 days scheduled, but since then we’ve added extra non instructional days (most recently the transition day and the day before Thanksgiving), so here we are. MCPS pleases no one by trying to please everyone. To give each constituency the days off they want and honor staff contracts, while meeting the requirement of 180 instructional days, we get one single built in snow day.

This is my family’s last year in MCPS. I’m cool with snow days because seniors don’t have to make up days tacked onto the end of the year. I feel for families with elementary school students, though. They’re the ones who take the brunt of it.

[Anonymous]

You don’t have to go the last couple of days if school goes into the summer. If you have plans go ahead and do them. Literally no one cares.

I’d like a 2 hour delay on Tuesday. That’s more likely than a closure

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS teacher and parent here. I like a couple of snow days, but the stress due to MCPS not building them into the schedule has me worrying about how late it will go into the summer if we have a lot of snow. Why can’t they build in the days like Fairfax county? Every year it’s like this.

I thought they count minutes not days. I wish Maryland would move to that model, MCPS exceeds that amount by a lot.