Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 1,487 students in 4 schools

Windsor Locks School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Windsor Locks get?

About 38.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.9 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Windsor Locks?

15.8 inches on March 14, 2017, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2016 to 2017, with 62.3 inches.

Q: Does Windsor Locks get more snow days than other Connecticut districts?

Windsor Locks averages 1.9 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 64 percent of the 166 Connecticut districts with a station record.

Q: How does the Windsor Locks snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Windsor Locks 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 Windsor Locks’s own big snow morning: 4.7 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Windsor Locks, measured against Windsor Locks's own big snow morning of 4.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Windsor Locks close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Windsor Locks.

Ten winters of school mornings

Windsor Locks’s snow record

38.9inches of snow a winter

3.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.9with 4 in or more

4.7 ina big snow morning in Windsor Locks: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

1.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 64% of the 166 Connecticut districts with a station record.

0.9Nov

8Dec

10.7Jan

11.2Feb

6.4Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 15.8 in on March 14, 2017
Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 62.3 in
6 in mornings 1 a winter
1 in mornings 5.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.3 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.

The Connecticut rule

How Connecticut counts a lost day

Connecticut requires at least 180 days and 900 hours of actual school work, counting no more than 7 hours a day.

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

Next door

Districts near Windsor Locks

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
East Windsor School DistrictEast Windsor	38.9 in	1.9
Suffield School DistrictSuffield	26.1 in	1.1
South Windsor School DistrictSouth Windsor	24.8 in	1.7
Enfield School DistrictEnfield	26.1 in	1.1
Windsor School DistrictWindsor	24.8 in	1.7
Bloomfield School DistrictBloomfield	24.8 in	1.7

The schools

4 schools

Every school in Windsor Locks follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

Windsor Locks High School

Middle

Windsor Locks Middle School

Elementary

North Street School
South Elementary School

Questions

Windsor Locks snow day questions

How much snow does Windsor Locks get?

What was the biggest snow day near Windsor Locks?

Does Windsor Locks get more snow days than other Connecticut districts?

How does the Windsor Locks snow day predictor work?

How does Connecticut handle snow days?

More winter

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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.