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Wales, Maine, 1,278 students in 5 schools

Regional School Unit 04 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 04, measured against Regional School Unit 04's own big snow morning of 5.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 04 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Wales.
Ten winters of school mornings

Regional School Unit 04’s snow record

72.9inches of snow a winter
8.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.9with 4 in or more
5.3 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 04: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 217 Maine districts with a station record.

3.6Nov
16.4Dec
19.3Jan
19.6Feb
10.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16 in on December 30, 2016
  • Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 109 in
  • 6 in mornings 2.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 12.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 9.2 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 04

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
School Administrative District 11Gardiner63.7 in4.1
Lisbon Public SchoolsLisbon62.3 in3.7
Lewiston Public SchoolsLewiston62.3 in3.7
Auburn Public SchoolsAuburn62.3 in3.73
School Administrative District 52Turner77.2 in4.2
Regional School Unit 02Hallowell66 in3.7
The schools

5 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 04 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Oak Hill High School

Middle

  • Oak Hill Middle School, Sabattus

Elementary

  • Sabattus Primary School, Sabattus
  • Carrie Ricker School, Litchfield

Other schools

  • Libby-Tozier School, Litchfield
Questions

Regional School Unit 04 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.