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Rockland, Maine, 1,501 students in 6 schools

Regional School Unit 13 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Regional School Unit 13, measured against Regional School Unit 13's own big snow morning of 4.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Regional School Unit 13 close tomorrow?

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

Regional School Unit 13’s snow record

49.8inches of snow a winter
7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
4.5 ina big snow morning in Regional School Unit 13: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.7Nov
9.2Dec
16.5Jan
10.9Feb
9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13.5 in on January 30, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 67.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 11.9 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 13

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
School Administrative District 40Union49.8 in3
Regional School Unit 12Somerville70.5 in4.2
Regional School Unit 71Belfast66.8 in3
School Administrative District 11Gardiner63.7 in4.1
Augusta Public SchoolsAugusta66 in3.7
Regional School Unit 02Hallowell66 in3.7
The schools

6 schools

Every school in Regional School Unit 13 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Oceanside High School

Middle

  • Oceanside Middle School, Thomaston

Elementary

  • South School
  • Ash Point Community School, Owls Head
  • Thomaston Grammar School, Thomaston
  • Cushing Community School, Cushing
Questions

Regional School Unit 13 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.