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Ten snow days so far this school year, the most in recent memory

That beats the 8 snow days the area saw in the 2012-2013 school year
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Thanks to a couple of snowstorms, school buses were cancelled twice more this week by the Sudbury Student Services Consortium, meaning we've officially had more snow days this winter than any in recent memory.

The consortium recently provided Sudbury.com with school bus cancellation statistics from past school years going back to 2011-2012.

The 2012-2013 school year, which previously had the most cancellations, saw a total of 10 school bus cancellations in the local consortium's service area, which includes Greater Sudbury, Espanola, Massey and Manitoulin Island.

There were eight school bus cancellations that affected Greater Sudbury in 2012-2013.

But the 2018-2019 school year, which has seen extreme cold, freezing rain and several snowstorms, has already surpassed those numbers, and the winter is by no means over yet.

A look at the consortium's Twitter site shows there's been 12 days so far this school year when school buses have been cancelled in its service area.

Ten of those snow days have affected Greater Sudbury — Nov. 27, Dec. 21, Jan. 8, Jan. 24, Jan. 28, Jan. 29, Feb. 4, Feb. 8, Feb. 13 and Feb. 15.

Two of this year's snow days affected Manitoulin Island only — Jan. 25 and Jan. 30.

That being said, once today's snow is over, it looks like we're in for a stretch of sunny weather with daytime temperatures of between -7 C and -12 C over the next week, so maybe the kids will get an uninterrupted week in school, finally.


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