What is the average # of days when the weather's too cold to go to school/work ?

Question

My sis walks to skewl (15 min walk in winter) & I work (5 min walk) but @ work sometimes they don't make it in to work due to bad weather. I think this one lady doesn't go just cuz it snows :s
It's been a nice winter up here where we live but in the past wk there have been 3 snow days in a row for my sis. So she went home. I don't think that there's any given yr when the weather's too bad to go to skewl. (At my work they take a lot of factors in to consideration: wind chill, amount of snow, etc)

Anyone know ? Are there any weathermen/women on here ? :P

I live in Manitoba, Canada. It's above North Dakota. I live where the sun shines a lot.

Answer 1

You don't say where you are, so it's hard to answer the question. There's no real reason why temperature should affect work or school at all. With proper clothing, people can go outdoors at virtually any temperature. What is sometimes more of an issue is whether vehicles such as school buses will start. When the temperature reaches about -20 F or less, that can be a serious problem.

In most of North America, snow and ice are much more likely to close schools and businesses than temperature is. Snow and ice can become impassible, and even if they are open, travel can be difficult and dangerous.

How much weather affects school and business varies a lot, depending on what people are used to. In a place that rarely gets much snow, just a small amount of freezing precipitation can bring things to a standstill. On the other hand, places that are used to large amounts will pause briefly when a foot of snow falls, but then quickly go back to normal. Similarly, relatively warm climates will think anything below freezing is bitterly cold (which can be true, in locations where central heating is not standard). In colder climates, though, people will spend large amounts of time outdoors when the thermometer is well below zero.

I live in the upper Midwest, a cold climate that gets a fair amount of snow. Here temperature almost never closes schools or businesses, and neither does gently falling snow--even in quantity. Blizzards (snow together with wind) and ice storms are a different matter, though. Schools are probably closed an average of five days a winter here due to blizzards.

Answer 2

4-5?