The days in the winter season when extensive snow falls in a short span of time making it difficult to travel and to go out of the houses, and the schools and colleges close due to this reason.

Snow is gifted to transform an unattractive and awful place into a beautiful, mesmerizing and scenic beauty; however, it also has to power to turn the daily life of a region into a total nightmare by covering the roads with heaps of snow and slippery pathways.While half of the world is concerned about global warming and talking about the various problems associated with this phenomenon, which is causing the melting of glaciers and there snow is becoming an uncommon phenomenon.

Disabled and elderly people are restricted to their homes.Some of the adverse effects of heavy snowfall are unpredictable fires, power cuts, public transport shut down, educational institutions and business closures, and injuries caused due to frostbites and slippery pathways.

It basically works on an algorithm that takes an area’s pin code and other factors such as past snow days, current temperature, forecasted wind chill for the next day, forecasted snow accumulation, probability of precipitation and analyses this data and predicts the snow days to come, which helps the users to plan accordingly.Earlier people used to predict the weather according to various natural things that are near us, such as:        If the sky is cloudy in the winter season, then it means that it will be quite cold, however, if dark clouds are visible in different directions and are approaching you, then it is a sign of bad weather and anytime a hailstorm may occur.

So, schools can take the help of some intelligent weather tools to make the right decision, to call the school off or not.

Weather AlertsAnother tool used by various organizations is a weather alert system that predicts the snowfall as well as snow days.