McLean County Unit School District 5 Snow Day Predictor

About 11.6 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.2 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.

8.5 inches on January 13, 2019, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 1.2 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 19.9 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Normal 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 McLean’s own big snow morning: 3.3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.2 miles away.

Illinois requires a calendar of at least 185 days to guarantee 176 days of actual student attendance, each of at least 5 clock hours. The extra calendar days are emergency days used first; after they are gone, the State Superintendent may excuse days lost to an act of God or a hazard beyond the district's control without cutting state aid.

A district with a board adopted e-learning program, verified each year by its regional office, can use e-learning days in place of its emergency days, and they count as full attendance days; they cannot exceed the emergency days in the calendar.