Waukee Community School District Snow Day Predictor

Waukee announces closings normally no later than 5:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

By phone call, text message, email, the district app, local TV and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

May 28, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 27.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 6 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.4 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.9 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Waukee 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 Waukee’s own big snow morning: 3.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 6 miles away.

Iowa requires at least 180 days or 1,080 hours of instruction, as the board chooses. When a board extends the calendar to make up weather closures, it may excuse seniors who have already met graduation requirements.