Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231 Snow Day Predictor

About 16.4 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 10.9 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.7 with 4 inches or more.

6 inches on November 26, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 10.9 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 30.5 inches.

Gardner Edgerton averages 0.7 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 83 percent of the 284 Kansas districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Gardner 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 Gardner Edgerton’s own big snow morning: 3.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 10.9 miles away.

Kansas requires 186 school days (181 for seniors), or by board policy 1,116 school hours for grades 1 to 11 (1,086 for seniors, 465 for kindergarten). Once the board's scheduled snow make-up days are used up, extra weather closures count as school days, up to the number of make-up days scheduled or five days, whichever is smaller.