Geary County Schools Unified School District 475 Snow Day Predictor

Geary announces closings no later than 6 a.m. on the day of the change, by its own published protocol.

By email, text message, the district app, the district website, social media, 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 21, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 10.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 9.9 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Junction City 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 Geary’s own big snow morning: 3.2 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 9.9 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.