Great video on tires.
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How did this thread go from school bus awareness to tires without me getting involved? 
But seriously, what about school bus tires? Nominal pressures, best brands, maintenance practices, etc.
What about postal delivery vehicle tires?
Start a new thread about them!
Retreads! Ha.
Very few places in the US will need a tire for extremely cold weather. The average temps in the Boston area in January (Coldest month) is 39 degrees.
Thatâs the high temp for the daytime. Overnight temps go much lower:
Boston is also an urban area on the seashore so the temps are moderated by that. Go a little north and/or west and they tend to be lower and for more daysâŠ
You donât necessarily need extremely cold weather. Cold enough to form ice on the road is enough for me⊠The colder it gets the less of an issue. The snow just blows off the road where it gets really cold 
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Some folks need to do some winter traveling to experience REAL cold weather. Fargo, North Dakota has an average minimum temp of 0 degrees⊠average! Minneapolis, the same. The coldest in the US is Fairbanks AK at -17 average low temp. And donât forget Marquette Michigan in the Upper Peninsula at 10 degrees. All these cities have recorded low temps of -30 and below!
These are cities that in the winter that experience temps below where road salt works very well (15 F).
Summer tires generally have warnings not to use them below 40 degree F.
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I was responding to the part of the video where they were talking about the tires performance in Cold weather on dry pavement. And the temp difference from Boston to Manchester is only 6 degrees. So during the winter months even in Manchester the winter tires MIGHT be needed 10 days total. As I stated - a good all season tire is fine for most of the country. Iâve been driving in snow and winter/cold conditions for DECADES. Never NEEDED winter tires for 99.9999% of my over 1 million miles of driving.
Nonsense. I lived in Haverhill for 10 years. Plenty of days with snow and ice conditions where winter tires were a blessing. In fact, never had them prior, even when living in much colder climate. The conditions there spurred me into buying them and was very happy with that decision. Especially on the east coast where they allow big trees to exist within a foot of the icy roadâŠ
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Then itâs either the vehicle or knowing how to drive in snow winter conditions. I live under 10 miles from Haverhill. I can count on 1 hand the number of times it snowed more than 2â in a year for the past 15 years (not counting the extreme winter of February 2015 - nothing but snow tires with chains could have helped you that month. Our small town received over 80â of snow in that month alone). The really bad snowstorms (over 6â) we stayed at home until the plows came out. All season tires were more than adequate to drive in. In the extreme weather you just need to take it slower and drive according to conditions - Simple.
And, we walked three miles to school, uphill, both waysđ
Seriously though, our outdoor skating rinks opened in November or December.
I was in Utah when radial tires began to become popular, there was the misinformation going around snow tires were not needed if you had radials!
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That way today? When we first moved into our town some 25 years ago there was an outdoor youth hockey league. League stopped over 10 years ago because the ponds/lakes arenât freezing over any longer or if they do itâs only for a couple weeks at best.
Since this thing has drifted off course let me add to the mess. I have never seen a notice or public service announcement saying that people should expect the the school bus drivers to make small errors because most of them are part time retired people or school personel volunteering their time because of a lack of actual bus drivers. This is not a knock on the drivers who really donât get paid much plus having 30 or more kids who donât want to be calm and collected is something I could not do.
Tire discussions might be worse than oil discussions.
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+1
I used to marvel at the driving skill of the middle-aged women who drove most of our school buses. They were able to smoothly drive those huge stick-shift vehicles, while simultaneously watching their mirror for behavior problems among the kids.
It was rare that they had to return the bus to the school in order for some disruptive kids to be disciplined, but they did do so when necessary.
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I have an idea:
Invite 4-6 parents who are available for either the ride to, or from, school, just to see how their kids behave on public schoolbuses, and if they behave that way when their folks are riding along.
I donât know, I left Minneapolis when I dodged the draft. Intended to return after my four years, go back to work at the factory. But that did not happen, ended up in FL.
I wouldnât recommend the Nokian. After watching that video I concluded the all season was best for all seasons for me.
The Coronado resort in San Diego has an outdoor ice skating rink in winter. So that by itself doesnât say much about the weather.