Is it actually snowing hard in the fall or are the schools stuck in some sort of always closed mode regardless of the weather?

I do have a solution for you, though it may not be the one you want. The presence of the SP Career add-on module (not the Careers mod, the add-on for StoryProgression) puts a stop to Snow Days entirely. The code disallows them and there are no associated options available. We're not entirely sure why, we think Twallan found this feature was misbehaving and disabled all of it years ago. It's on the slate to be looked at again for a future release of SP. As a result, many players here (even some of my colleagues at one point) didn't even realize there was such a thing as Snow Days to begin with as they had never seen one.

This of course assumes one is using NRaas SP to manage story progression.

Tempest doesn't affect Snow Days that I know of, only the weather patterns and holidays (and other related things like crops freezing and the persistence of fallen leaves). It's up to the school board, not the meteorologists, as to when schools should be closed.

So SP is actually in control of progression, meaning SP > General Options > Enable Progression is True?

Strange. Unless you have a mod from another source in play that has something to do with Snow Days, I don't even see how the scenario can be running or how the designation is getting used. Perhaps a MC Reset of the entire town, or at least the schools, might help fix things?

JohnL83 wrote: ↑

December 25th, 2019, 9:24 am

BTW: When I first read this line I was like, where does Igazor live he's never heard of a snow day? I swear I remember talking with him about snow! LOL

I meant that many players with the SP Career module forget there is such a thing as a snow day in the game, not in real life. Where I grew up, yes we laughed at the idea of even thinking about schools closing for "only" a foot of snow. Three feet...maybe. It depends on when and how quickly it fell or was still falling, if there was any visibility in the early morning at all, and how clear the major roads might have been so that the school buses could get through. Actually, the real formula was if the school superintendent could figure out how to get his car out of the driveway at 6 am or so and still see a road out there someplace, then the schools would be open. Since we didn't have the Internet back then and listening to long lists of school district closings to find out if by some miracle ours was listed was a pain, as we were towards the end of the alphabet, all we really had to do was call the superintendent's son (he went to my high school) and ask if his Dad was home.

When i later lived in DC and worked in a government office, I went to work three times without even thinking to check for weather related closures (one and a half inches and some ice, really?) only to find I was the only one there. Got the hang of that eventually. No wonder the local morning news shows had such high ratings back then.