School District 49 Snow Day Predictor

School District 49 announces closings Closure decisions are always made by 5 a.m. and often by 4:30 a.m.; sometimes the night before when the forecast is severe, by its own published protocol.

By email, text message, the district website, social media and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 50.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.9 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 4.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2.1 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Peyton through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against School District 49’s own big snow morning: 4.6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.9 miles away.

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.