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Regional School Unit 01 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 01, measured against Regional School Unit 01's own big snow morning of 5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 01 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Bath.
The Regional School Unit 01 playbook

How Regional School Unit 01 calls a snow day

When the call comes

No later than 6:00 A.M.

“Decisions to close school for the day should be made no later than 6:00 A.M.”
Source

How families hear

By local TV and radio.

“TELEVISION WCSH Channel 6 WGME Channel 13 WMTW Channel 8 BCTV Cable Channel 3 (PBCTV) RADIO WCME (99.5 FM)”
School Closings and Delays - Regional School Unit 1

Remote learning days

Regional School Unit 01 has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“Storm days lost in excess of the number provided for in the school year calendar will be made up by conducting classes on the weekend, rescheduling or shortening scheduled vacation periods, remote days, and/or postponing the close of the school year, as determined by the Board.”
Source

Making up a lost day

Each canceled day adds one day to the end of the year.

“^ each canceled day adds one day”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 1, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Dec 31
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 14, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“The Board authorizes the Superintendent to cancel or close school(s) for the day, delay opening, or dismiss school(s) early in the event of severe weather, hazardous travel conditions, or other emergencies which present threats to the safety of students and staff.”
Board policy

Read from Regional School Unit 01’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is rsu1.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 01’s snow record

66.5inches of snow a winter
8.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.8with 4 in or more
5 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 01: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
8.2school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 53% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

1.9Nov
13.5Dec
18.8Jan
17.3Feb
12.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 21 in on February 13, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 99.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.5 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.

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The Maine rule

How Maine counts a lost day

Maine requires a 180 day school year with at least 175 days of instruction. The Commissioner may waive the minimum days on a school board's written application, but only after the district has tried every reasonable way to make the days up.

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

Next door

Districts near Regional School Unit 01

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Brunswick Public SchoolsBrunswick66.5 in3.8
School Administrative District 75Topsham66.5 in3.8
Regional School Unit 05Freeport68.6 in3.9
Lisbon Public SchoolsLisbon62.3 in3.7
Regional School Unit 04Wales72.9 in3.9
Yarmouth SchoolsYarmouth68.6 in3.9
The schools

7 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 01 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Morse High School

Middle

  • Bath Middle School

Elementary

  • Woolwich Central School, Woolwich
  • Dike-Newell School
  • Fisher-Mitchell School
  • Phippsburg Elementary School, Phippsburg

Other schools

  • Bath Regional Career & Technical
Questions

Regional School Unit 01 snow day questions

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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.