Starting to think that there might not be school tomorrow.  Follow the bouncing ball:

• Five to nine inches of snow;
• Starting after 2:00 in the morning;
• after a period of rain (more ice)
• and sleet (more ice)
• coupled with 35-mph winds
• peaking at two inches of snow an hour at… 6:00 in the morning.

That’s what you call a perfect storm, kids.  It’s basically exactly what you need in this part of the world for snow to cancel school, combined with the guarantee that weather like that will keep a lot of kids home even if the schools don’t cancel, because it’ll be vile as hell outside.  Yes, it’s ISTEP week.  Better or worse: extend testing another day for everyone, or have 15-20% of all the kids in every school need make-up tests?

(For the record: same thing happened three or four years ago.  They cancelled.)