WOW it's cold today!

[AprilFool]

Do they actually cancel classes in some cities when it gets cold!!?? I'm in Winnipeg and they sometimes cancel buses but i don't think the school boards care when your kid (Mine is 6) walks to school and it is -50. She "skipped" school once this year cause I didn't want to walk her all the way there (1.2km) with her 2 year old sister that doesn't like her scarf!

 

[popinl]

They don't close the schools here if it is too cold, just if it is snowing too much. I don't blame you for letting your daughter "skip" school when it is that cold 1.2 km both ways is a lot for a 2 year old or even a 6 year old when it is -50 outside

 

[SandraC]

Our School's policy is; if the wind chill is -25 the kids stay in for recess. bbrrrrrrrrrr. S

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

Here they keep the kids in if it's too cold but they will also close schools if the temps go below -35 according to the teachers whose kids I look after. Kinda silly if you ask me b/c they really need to remember we live in CANADA!! In Igloo's even!!

Another cold one here today but the walk to school wasn't too bad as long as we bundled up!

 

[laura001]

Here they keep the kids in if it's too cold but they will also close schools if the temps go below -35 according to the teachers whose kids I look after. Kinda silly if you ask me b/c they really need to remember we live in CANADA!! In Igloo's even!!

Another cold one here today but the walk to school wasn't too bad as long as we bundled up!

I was thinking just that yesterday as far as school closures. I am from the Niagara Region (banana belt of Ontario..lol) and kept hearing about schools closing in Buffalo yesterday because of the cold. Hmmmm.....

BitsnBearsMom- I see you are from Guelph, my DD is there at the University. She says it is cccccoooooolllllllddddd there, I was complaining to her yesterday about the cold, she said I had no idea...

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

Oh my it was bad here yesterday - -30 with the windchill and it 'warmed up' to -27 - the kind of cold that hurts your eyes and hurts to breath - couldn't even begin to imagine how bad it is out in Manitoba for those people in the -40's Wouldn't have been too bad here if it hadn't been so darn windy - Guelph is always windy though!! I know I was thankful to have dh home to do the walk to and from school!!

 

[Kelly5538]

Yup - it's naaaaaasty cold here in Orangeville too! YIKES!

That's why I booked our trip this morning! LOL

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Oh puhleeze...we were in the -30s last fall when you Ontario folks were still in shorts and t-shirts...we've gotten used to it by now

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

We're just a whole lot softer here in Ontario

 

[laura001]

Oh puhleeze...we were in the -30s last fall when you Ontario folks were still in shorts and t-shirts...we've gotten used to it by now

Bring back the Tshirt and short weather please Mr. Weatherman!!!!

 

[popinl]

Oh puhleeze...we were in the -30s last fall when you Ontario folks were still in shorts and t-shirts...we've gotten used to it by now

Usually by this time of the year we're used to it as well...we got spoiled in December, and we're paying for it now....much warmer today only -14 with windchill of -20

 

[bunnyfoo]

One of the benefits of the cold weather is that my parents have started driving to work so I end up getting a lift to the subway station. Much much better than guessing what time the bus is going to arrive. And I don't have to leave as early in the morning!

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Usually by this time of the year we're used to it as well...we got spoiled in December, and we're paying for it now....much warmer today only -14 with windchill of -20

Oh I know...I was just being a smarta$$...was born and raised in Ont (moved out here in the spring of '99). We had an unusually brutal start to winter this year...it's not unusual to have a white Halloween (never mind a white Christmas)...have had snow on the ground at the end of October 6 out of the 8 years I've been out here but this year we spent most of Nov below -25 and had close to 4 feet of snow on the ground before December (and it's still here).

Basically we get winter about a month earlier and it lasts about a month longer and those cold snaps that last a few days in southern Ont last a few weeks out here. Of course being further north we get shorter days in the winter but longer days in the summer.