00:00there's one thing that is a true a great predictor of future success for students it is their social
00:13emotional negotiation skills their equilibrium and there are a lot of things to recommend about
00:23a snow day because it is an unexpected gift since snow days are so unexpected they really are this
00:31forced pause and for that and a whole host of reasons i think they are there's something that
00:38we should honor while snow days can be unexpected accuweather created a unique tool some 15 years ago
00:46to make it easier to plan for school closings throughout the winter season i'm mariella
00:51scalise and i can't wait to break down the snow day forecast and show you where to find it on our
00:56website first let's start off with the definition the accuweather snow day chance is an index that
01:02provides a prediction on how likely local schools near your weather location are to be closed for
01:07the given day based on the latest weather forecast and it's not even just the actual weather but it's
01:14likely impact on road travel conditions it also takes into account local climatology for example
01:20an inch of snow in northern florida may lead to school cancellations while it would likely take
01:25a lot more snow to cancel school in the great lake snow belt so let's give you an idea of where you
01:33can find this on our website we'll pop on over here and take a look so you would just type in your
01:38location i typed in new york city as an example and then you would go to wintercast you have to have
01:42a wintercast to be able to access this so while the site loads we'll go down keep scrolling keep
01:48scrolling all the way to the bottom and you'll see snow day forecast with a percentage of how likely
01:53school is to be closed in new york city a 20 chance that school is closed on tuesday
01:59you
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