Monticello, Indiana, 2,183 students in 5 schools

Twin Lakes School Corporation Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Monticello get?

About 16.4 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 11.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.5 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Twin Lakes?

7.8 inches on January 13, 2019, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 11.3 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2020 to 2021, with 23.6 inches.

Q: How does the Twin Lakes snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Monticello 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 Twin Lakes’s own big snow morning: 3.2 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 11.3 miles away.

Q: How far ahead does the Twin Lakes 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 Twin Lakes, measured against Twin Lakes's own big snow morning of 3.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Twin Lakes close tomorrow?

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Twin Lakes’s snow record

16.4inches of snow a winter

1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.5with 4 in or more

3.2 ina big snow morning in Twin Lakes: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

5.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

1Nov

2.7Dec

5.1Jan

5.6Feb

1.2Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 7.8 in on January 13, 2019
Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 23.6 in
6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
1 in mornings 3.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.3 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 Twin Lakes

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Delphi Community School CorporationDelphi	21.1 in	0.5
Carroll Consolidated School CorporationFlora	21.1 in	0.5
Lafayette School CorporationLafayette	15.3 in	0.3	1
Logansport Community School CorporationLogansport	12.4 in	0.4
Eastern Pulaski Community School CorporationWinamac	18.3 in	0.6
Rensselaer Central School CorporationRensselaer	17.7 in	0.4

The schools

5 schools

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

High

Twin Lakes Senior High School

Middle

Roosevelt Middle School

Elementary

Meadowlawn Elementary School
Oaklawn Elementary School
Eastlawn Elementary School, Burnettsville

Questions

Twin Lakes snow day questions

How much snow does Monticello get?

What was the biggest snow day near Twin Lakes?

How does the Twin Lakes snow day predictor work?

How does Indiana handle snow days?

How far ahead does the Twin Lakes snow day predictor look?

More winter

More for Indiana snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Indiana winter forecastThe season ahead for Indiana: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.