Brown County County School Corporation Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Brown, measured against Brown's own big snow morning of 2.9 inches.
The next three school mornings
Will Brown close tomorrow?
Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Nashville.
Ten winters of school mornings
Brown’s snow record
11.2inches of snow a winter
1.2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
2.9 ina big snow morning in Brown: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.5Nov
1.9Dec
5.1Jan
3Feb
0.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
Biggest day 10.2 in on January 25, 2026
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 26 in
6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
1 in mornings 2.3 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station 15 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.
Advertisement
The Indiana rule
How Indiana counts a lost day
Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.
Every school in Brown follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
Brown County High School
Middle
Brown County Middle School
Elementary
Sprunica Elementary School, Nineveh
Helmsburg Elementary School, Morgantown
Van Buren Elementary School
Questions
Brown snow day questions
About 11.2 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 15 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.4 with 4 inches or more.
10.2 inches on January 25, 2026, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 15 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 26 inches.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Nashville 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 Brown’s own big snow morning: 2.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 15 miles away.
Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.
Three school mornings, as far as the National Weather Service hourly forecast reaches. Weekends and breaks are skipped, so a Friday storm is read for Monday’s buses.
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.
