Sellersburg, Indiana, 3,104 students in 4 schools

Silver Creek School Corporation Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Sellersburg get?

About 11.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 16.1 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.3 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Silver Creek?

9 inches on January 5, 2025, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 16.1 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2024 to 2025, with 22.7 inches.

Q: How does the Silver Creek snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Sellersburg 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 Silver Creek’s own big snow morning: 2.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 16.1 miles away.

Q: How far ahead does the Silver Creek snow day predictor look?

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 odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Silver Creek, measured against Silver Creek's own big snow morning of 2.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Silver Creek close tomorrow?

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Silver Creek’s snow record

11.7inches of snow a winter

1.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.3with 4 in or more

2.8 ina big snow morning in Silver Creek: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

0.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0.4Nov

1.5Dec

5.4Jan

2.5Feb

1.7Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 9 in on January 5, 2025
Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 22.7 in
6 in mornings 0 a winter
1 in mornings 2.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 16.1 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 Indiana rule

How Indiana counts a lost day

Indiana requires at least 180 student instructional days a school year.

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

Next door

Districts near Silver Creek

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Borden-Henryville School CorpMemphis	11.7 in	0.3
Greater Clark County SchoolsJeffersonville	11.7 in	0.3	3
New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated SchoolsNew Albany	11.7 in	0.3
Clarksville Community School CorporationClarksville	11.7 in	0.3
East Washington School CorporationPekin	13.3 in	0.6
Scott County School District 2Scottsburg	13.3 in	0.6

The schools

4 schools

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

High

Silver Creek High School

Middle

Silver Creek Middle School

Elementary

Silver Creek Elementary School
Silver Creek Primary School

Questions

Silver Creek snow day questions

How much snow does Sellersburg get?

What was the biggest snow day near Silver Creek?

How does the Silver Creek snow day predictor work?

How does Indiana handle snow days?

How far ahead does the Silver Creek snow day predictor look?

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.