This Map Shows the Amount of Snow It Takes to Cancel School

Snow days can be nightmares for working parents. Some areas tend to need very little snow to cause a school closing, while in other areas schools don't blink if there's two feet of snow.

This map, created by Alexandr Trubetskoy (atrubetskoy on Reddit) takes data from hundreds of Reddit responses interpolated with NOAA's average annual snowfall days to estimate the likelihood of your area canceling school based on the snowfall.

There are clarifications for the visual, though, such as in the Midwest and Great Plains, wind chill and temperature influence closings more than the amount of snow accumulation, and in the green areas even the mere prediction of snow can cause closings.

Perhaps looked another way, this is a map of where snow is a Very Big Deal and areas where they're much more capable of and used to dealing with a lot of snow.

Snow Days | Alexandr Trubetskoy via The Atlantic

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