Liberty-Perry Community School Corporation Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Liberty-Perry, measured against Liberty-Perry's own big snow morning of 2.3 inches.
The next three school mornings
Will Liberty-Perry close tomorrow?
Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Selma.
Ten winters of school mornings
Liberty-Perry’s snow record
18.9inches of snow a winter
1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.3with 4 in or more
2.3 ina big snow morning in Liberty-Perry: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.3Nov
4.5Dec
6.8Jan
4.3Feb
1.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
Biggest day 6 in on February 16, 2021
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 32 in
6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
1 in mornings 4.4 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.6 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 Liberty-Perry follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
Wapahani High School
Middle
Selma Middle School
Elementary
Selma Elementary School
Questions
Liberty-Perry snow day questions
About 18.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.6 miles away, averaged over 9 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.
6 inches on February 16, 2021, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 4.6 miles away in 9 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 32 inches.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Selma 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 Liberty-Perry’s own big snow morning: 2.3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.6 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.
