That’s nothing.
In the summer, it can get up to 110-120 here.
I don’t think it’s terrible that they closed school or anything. I just find it really exotic, as those are literally everyday normal conditions in my head.
I do think all the talk about AC is strange. I don’t think our school windows opened either, and lots of housing didnt have AC (and those that did probably wouldn’t run them on such a mild day.)
Its cold when its zero. Its really cold when its 20 below - but we don’t close school then. Its dangerous at 40 below and even we close school. If a bus gets stuck at 40 below, even if you are dressed for it, its a problem.
Okay, so we’ve established that you have no earthly idea what you’re talking about.
All generalizations are wrong, including these two.
There is this marvelous invention called an oscillating fan.
Perhaps the folks in Minneapolis should buy a few for their schools. Open the windows and turn on the oscillating fans. Thats how my elementary school operated. It was a building that had been built in the 40’s but well maintained. We didn’t get AC until junior high.
I wonder who’s bright idea it was to not have air conditioning in a school. Hell, just the science classes might be storing things that need to be kept at a certain temperature. Living in Los Angeles, I thought every public building is mandated to have both heaters and AC, I can’t imagine this bizarro world in MN where schools don’t have it
It seems crazy these days. However, my high school (in the South) didn’t get AC until the 90s.
Because many of the schools that were closed were built 60 - 80 years ago and Minneapolis isn’t rolling in green to afford it. We do spend much more on heating, as anywhere from October - April the furnaces may be in use. Air conditioning is usually not necessary as the heat/humidity we’ve been dealing with not a common occurrance here.
Personally, I think of the media hadn’t made such a to-do about it, the schools would have remained open.
And NORMALLY, school doesn’t start until after labor day - you don’t tend to get too many 90+ plus days from September to June in Minnesota - a few here and there maybe - but it would be hard to justify air conditioning for the few days here and there. But the weather patterns around here have really shifted. It used to be that my parent’s lake would always be frozen by the teen week in November, and the ice would go out the teen week in April. Since I was in high school 30 years ago, that’s moved two weeks into early December and late April. So the end of August and beginning of September have both gotten hotter (but my kids have trick or treated in t-shirts many times - usually it was parka weather by the end of October back in the olden days), but they don’t swim in the lake until the middle of June (we were usually in it by the end of May).
Cities in the Twin Cities have been known to close schools because it was too windy. They start the school a couple weeks early so they can close them during inclement weather and by god, they’re going to do it!
It’s not just Minneapolis, but Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa as well.
I read a report that said some classrooms in one high school in Minneapolis were 90-100 degrees, even with whatever windows open that they could and fans.
Many metro area districts almost never close for weather (rural ones do sometimes because roads aren’t plowed as early). My daughter is in 11th grade, and her school has closed once for weather in all that time.