User blog comment:Radical M/Snow Day/@comment-1874924-20110204051501

In the Denver area, most of the school districts were closed Tuesday & Wednesday--not for snow, but for cold. Wimps. Tuesday was the first day since 1997 that the temperature failed to rise above zero (Fahrenheit, for the non-U.S. wikians), but that has to be taken with a grain of salt. Since the mid-1980s, official temperatures and precipation readings have been taken at Denver International Airport, which is so far out on the plains that it's not representative of the Denver area.

I remember that, in all of my K-12 years, we had exactly one snow day (when I was in 7th grade). The real reason there are so many snow days nowadays is that school districts are afraid of getting sued if one of their buses gets into an accident during bad weather.