School closed 1/20/22

[Anonymous]

Explain how this makes sense- Our school was supposed to start virtual today due to covid through the 28th. In actuality today was supposed to be teacher planning day while kids do asynchronous learning; then zoom learning tomorrow.
So now I get this email that says because today is a snow day- planning day & asynchronous learning has been moved to tomorrow. And with Professional day on Monday, our kids won't do any real learning till Tuesday next week. What a load of crap. Why couldn't teachers plan today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is full of lame, coddled, afraid of everything in the world, weaklings. It’s is a disgrace that schools shut down - after many months of lost in person time - to rain. Did the person calling the shots not walk outside at 7:05? It was mild - 40 easy - and raining. Pathetic.

And just last week it was raining until it was snowing - hard. Local officials are a bit gun shy right now.

Can't have Larla stuck on a bus somewhere!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish people in this area would unclench some and be ok with one fouled up snow day. If they could unclench, maybe we could have gone virtual for a while like PG.

DCUM doesn't unclench.

Our schools in PGCPS just switched to virtual today and it went fine. Most of my students logged in (some were absent, same as any day with bad weather in person to be honest). We had a full day of online instruction. Of course it helps that we were virtual for two weeks after winter break, so the students all know the ropes. My high schooler had class as usual although she was scheduled for two tests and those teachers decided to postpone the tests until tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Explain how this makes sense- Our school was supposed to start virtual today due to covid through the 28th. In actuality today was supposed to be teacher planning day while kids do asynchronous learning; then zoom learning tomorrow.
So now I get this email that says because today is a snow day- planning day & asynchronous learning has been moved to tomorrow. And with Professional day on Monday, our kids won't do any real learning till Tuesday next week. What a load of crap. Why couldn't teachers plan today?

Incredible. This is what happens when an organization is working for its own interests instead of for its mission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Explain how this makes sense- Our school was supposed to start virtual today due to covid through the 28th. In actuality today was supposed to be teacher planning day while kids do asynchronous learning; then zoom learning tomorrow.
So now I get this email that says because today is a snow day- planning day & asynchronous learning has been moved to tomorrow. And with Professional day on Monday, our kids won't do any real learning till Tuesday next week. What a load of crap. Why couldn't teachers plan today?

Incredible. This is what happens when an organization is working for its own interests instead of for its mission.

I am usually not the type of person to complain so much about MCPS and I've been very sympathetic to the challenges they've been facing lately but this angers me. Absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Okay, but they had already called a two hour delay. No new information they received would lead someone to change from a 2 hour delay to a full closure. Their decision making ran fully counter to the direction of the forecast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Yup. They did what made sense at 7am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Okay, but they had already called a two hour delay. No new information they received would lead someone to change from a 2 hour delay to a full closure. Their decision making ran fully counter to the direction of the forecast.

A two-hour delay means high school buses start picking up kids between 8 and 8:30am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

They're looking for COVID circuit breakers anywhere they can find them.

Yeah this is my problem with the call. Not that they issued the 2-hr delay yesterday based on (what we know now was) a faulty forecast. But then at 7 am, when forecasters had changed the prediction, and there obviously wasn't snow, they upgraded to closure instead of recognizing that even the 2-hr delay was probably unnecessary. That made no sense whatsoever and fuels the politics/conspiracy talk.

I don’t have a problem with it. It would be better if they could be transparent without getting death threats, but that’s not reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Okay, but they had already called a two hour delay. No new information they received would lead someone to change from a 2 hour delay to a full closure. Their decision making ran fully counter to the direction of the forecast.

A two-hour delay means high school buses start picking up kids between 8 and 8:30am.

The irony is that the safest outcome would have been to go back to a normal schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Okay, but they had already called a two hour delay. No new information they received would lead someone to change from a 2 hour delay to a full closure. Their decision making ran fully counter to the direction of the forecast.

A two-hour delay means high school buses start picking up kids between 8 and 8:30am.

And drivers are firing up buses between 7 and 7:30am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

They're looking for COVID circuit breakers anywhere they can find them.

Yeah this is my problem with the call. Not that they issued the 2-hr delay yesterday based on (what we know now was) a faulty forecast. But then at 7 am, when forecasters had changed the prediction, and there obviously wasn't snow, they upgraded to closure instead of recognizing that even the 2-hr delay was probably unnecessary. That made no sense whatsoever and fuels the politics/conspiracy talk.

I don’t have a problem with it. It would be better if they could be transparent without getting death threats, but that’s not reality.

Great that you seem unperturbed. Not everyone is seeing it the same way and no one is getting death threats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Okay, but they had already called a two hour delay. No new information they received would lead someone to change from a 2 hour delay to a full closure. Their decision making ran fully counter to the direction of the forecast.

A two-hour delay means high school buses start picking up kids between 8 and 8:30am.

And drivers are firing up buses between 7 and 7:30am.

Should have just went back to a normal schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact is they weather is unpredictable. But at 7 am it was already clear they the feared accumulation wasn’t going to happen. MCPS could have simply continued with a two-hit delay. They would have made sense given they made that call last night. But instead they made the silly decision to close. Why?

This is the key question.

The Capital Weather Gang provides all its updates this morning with timestamps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/01/20/dc-maryland-virginia-snow-burst/

At 5AM they called for an accumulation of an inch or two with the main burst between 8am and 11am
At 6:20 AM they said the changeover to snow was delayed but would likely occur between 8am and 10am rather than the previously predicted 6am - 8am.
At 7:20 AM they said there were reports of snow in western Loudoun County but that the changeover was occurring slower than projected.
At 7:30 AM a report from the National Weather Service kept the winter weather advisory in place though they were now calling for only up to 1 inch
At 8:20AM CWG called it a "snow bust"

So I'd say that at 7AM there was still reasonable expectation for a winter weather event.

Okay, but they had already called a two hour delay. No new information they received would lead someone to change from a 2 hour delay to a full closure. Their decision making ran fully counter to the direction of the forecast.

A two-hour delay means high school buses start picking up kids between 8 and 8:30am.

And drivers are firing up buses between 7 and 7:30am.

Should have just went back to a normal schedule.

How would they have done that, with a time machine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DMV is full of lame, coddled, afraid of everything in the world, weaklings. It’s is a disgrace that schools shut down - after many months of lost in person time - to rain. Did the person calling the shots not walk outside at 7:05? It was mild - 40 easy - and raining. Pathetic.

And just last week it was raining until it was snowing - hard. Local officials are a bit gun shy right now.

Can't have Larla stuck on a bus somewhere!

It doesn’t take a meteorologist to know that for the small amount of snow forecast, even if it did turn to snow early enough to get the 1-2 inches, it was not going to stick that much given the warm ground. Totally different situation from last week.