Crawford County Community School Corporation Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Crawford, measured against Crawford's own big snow morning of 5 inches.
The next three school mornings
Will Crawford close tomorrow?
Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Marengo.
Ten winters of school mornings
Crawford’s snow record
6.3inches of snow a winter
0.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.4with 4 in or more
5 ina big snow morning in Crawford: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
2.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0Nov
1Dec
3.4Jan
1Feb
0.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
Biggest day 7 in on January 20, 2019
Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 16 in
6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
1 in mornings 2 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station 23.5 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 Indiana rule
How Indiana counts a lost day
Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.
Every school in Crawford follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
Crawford County High School
Crawford County Virtual Academy
Middle
Crawford County Middle School
Elementary
East Crawford Elementary School, Milltown
West Crawford Elementary School, Eckerty
South Crawford Elementary School, Leavenworth
Questions
Crawford snow day questions
About 6.3 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 23.5 miles away, averaged over 8 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.4 with 4 inches or more.
7 inches on January 20, 2019, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 23.5 miles away in 8 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 16 inches.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Marengo 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 Crawford’s own big snow morning: 5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 23.5 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.
