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Fort Morgan, Colorado, 3,427 students in 8 schools

Fort Morgan School District RE-3 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Fort Morgan RE-3, measured against Fort Morgan RE-3's own big snow morning of 3.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Fort Morgan RE-3 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Fort Morgan.
Ten winters of school mornings

Fort Morgan RE-3’s snow record

26.4inches of snow a winter
2.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
3.8 ina big snow morning in Fort Morgan RE-3: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
4.1Nov
3.3Dec
5.1Jan
4.7Feb
3.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10.3 in on November 26, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2019 to 2020, 43.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.1 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Colorado rule

How Colorado counts a lost day

Colorado requires at least 160 days, with 1,080 scheduled hours in secondary school and 990 in elementary. The scheduled hours can drop to 1,056 (secondary), 968 (elementary), 870 (full-day kindergarten) or 435 (half-day kindergarten) to cover conferences, staff training and closings the board judges necessary for student health, safety or welfare.

The Colorado rules in the agency’s own words, and every Colorado district

Next door

Districts near Fort Morgan RE-3

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Byers School District 32JByers28.6 in0.7
Greeley School District 6Greeley26 in0.5
School District 27JBrighton27 in0.9
Johnstown-Milliken School District RE-5JMilliken30.1 in0.6
Windsor School District RE-4Windsor36.6 in1
Adams-Arapahoe School District 28JAurora40.6 in1.1
The schools

8 schools

Every school in Fort Morgan RE-3 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Fort Morgan High School
  • Lincoln High School

Middle

  • Fort Morgan Middle School

Elementary

  • Columbine Elementary School
  • Baker Elementary School
  • Green Acres Elementary School
  • Pioneer Elementary School

Other schools

  • Sherman Early Childhood Center
Questions

Fort Morgan RE-3 snow day questions

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.