Snow days, school buses, and our growing anxiety about winter

We’ve all heard the complaints: The school buses have been cancelled again. It is happening more and more, people will tell you, making families scramble and adding to the misery of winter.
So we looked up the numbers — and busted an urban myth.
Snow days for school buses fluctuate from year to year, but there is no upward trend.
Underneath this belief, however, there’s a different trend: The psychology of weather, of the human experience with winter, is changing. And not for t