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Severe Severe Threat March 15-16 2026

superjames1992 said:
Yeah, but back in the day they didn't cancel school for the threat of severe thunderstorms, period.

The thing with schools is a lot of parents work jobs where they can't easily stay home for the day and watch their kids, so it complicates some parents' lives a lot when kids miss school, especially when it's not necessary. For people with flexible schedules or the ability to work from home, it may not be a big deal to miss school for nothing (which happens so many times now), but not everyone is like that.

I don't think we ever missed school for a true "non-event" back when I was in school (which was not very long ago!), so it's just bizarre to me. Maybe I'm just jealous of all the fake snow days I could've gotten.
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I am one of those parents, and since January this is the third Monday our kids have had off. On top of the snow days (5 total) this has been over a full work week of days with the kids at home. Both my wife and I work jobs that require us to be in meetings or on calls through the day and these cancellations absolutely wreck our work day. It puts immense pressure on working parents and though I get the abundance of caution, of the 6 weather days we’ve had this year there have really only been 2 that were justified in the actual outcome. At least snow days you can prep for, today caught us totally off guard. I don’t blame the schools but this is a total miss by meteorologists
 
superjames1992 said:
Yeah, but back in the day they didn't cancel school for the threat of severe thunderstorms, period.

The thing with schools is a lot of parents work jobs where they can't easily stay home for the day and watch their kids, so it complicates some parents' lives a lot when kids miss school, especially when it's not necessary. For people with flexible schedules or the ability to work from home, it may not be a big deal to miss school for nothing (which happens so many times now), but not everyone is like that.

I don't think we ever missed school for a true "non-event" back when I was in school (which was not very long ago!), so it's just bizarre to me. Maybe I'm just jealous of all the fake snow days I could've gotten.
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My school would actually take and teach about severe weather and storms on days like today to preach the importance of understanding what to look out for, watch vs warning, etc. Heck, it's why I love weather now.
 
superjames1992 said:
Yeah, but back in the day they didn't cancel school for the threat of severe thunderstorms, period.

The thing with schools is a lot of parents work jobs where they can't easily stay home for the day and watch their kids, so it complicates some parents' lives a lot when kids miss school, especially when it's not necessary. For people with flexible schedules or the ability to work from home, it may not be a big deal to miss school for nothing (which happens so many times now), but not everyone is like that.

I don't think we ever missed school for a true "non-event" back when I was in school (which was not very long ago!), so it's just bizarre to me. Maybe I'm just jealous of all the fake snow days I could've gotten.
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I graduated high school in 92. I remember getting dismissed early at least once in high school because of the threat of severe weather.
 
BrickTamland said:
I graduated high school in 92. I remember getting dismissed early at least once in high school because of the threat of severe weather.
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We had several early dismissals I can remember but since this was progged to come through around noon that wasn’t an option. Once again, I don’t blame schools, level 4 events are rare and should be respected, but that puts much more scrutiny on forecasters when they call for an event like this and it doesn’t pan out. Level 4/5 days are reserved for exceptional events and even some of the “busts” still produced significant severe weather. This legitimately produced almost nothing in the entire RAH warning area
 
I have so many questions about this event I don't know where to even begin. Just had a big severe warned complex roll through and while the rain was heavy, there wasn't so much as a gust of wind and I counted one rumble of thunder. Heaviest returns right over us too. In fact, there hasn't been anything resembling more than a light breeze all day. ILM was discussing possible wind advisories 24 hours ago.

It's been a recurring theme going back easily 5 years now. Heavy radar returns but ground truth not verifying. Is it possible the radars aren't calibrated properly? It certainly SEEMS like something changed around that 2020-2021 period but I don't have any evidence beyond what I've seen with my own eyes. It's not just in my neck of the woods either. This has happened all over NC and SC and probably beyond.

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JHS said:

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This says a LOT here.
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Haha I don’t think theres a single report not even a wind report in the entire RAH area!
 
NorthHillsWx said:
We had several early dismissals I can remember but since this was progged to come through around noon that wasn’t an option. Once again, I don’t blame schools, level 4 events are rare and should be respected, but that puts much more scrutiny on forecasters when they call for an event like this and it doesn’t pan out. Level 4/5 days are reserved for exceptional events and even some of the “busts” still produced significant severe weather. This legitimately produced almost nothing in the entire RAH warning area
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This makes forecasting discussions even more interesting for me. These busts showing that they can still occur despite great advancements must be humbling to the great met. profession.
 
BrickTamland said:
I graduated high school in 92. I remember getting dismissed early at least once in high school because of the threat of severe weather.
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I graduated way back in 1983 and I was only dismissed once because of severe weather. It was in April of 1975 and Wake County had multiple tornado warnings that day so classes were dismissed at 1:00 PM if I remember correctly.
 
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