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Allegany County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Allegany, measured against Allegany's own big snow morning of 4.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Allegany close tomorrow?

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

Allegany’s snow record

17.9inches of snow a winter
2.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.2with 4 in or more
4.2 ina big snow morning in Allegany: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 92% of the 24 Maryland districts with a station record.

0.9Nov
2.2Dec
6.7Jan
4.7Feb
2.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.1 in on March 21, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 37.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile 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 Maryland rule

How Maryland counts a lost day

Maryland requires at least 180 school days and 1,080 hours within 10 months, with days of at least 3 hours. On a county board's application showing it tried to comply, the State Board may shorten the year when severe weather or a disaster prevented normal attendance, without cutting state or local funding.

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

Next door

Districts near Allegany

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Garrett County Public SchoolsOakland68.6 in4.9
Washington County Public SchoolsHagerstown16.6 in0.86
Frederick County Public SchoolsFrederick17.7 in0.56
Montgomery County Public SchoolsRockville7.4 in0.4
Carroll County Public SchoolsWestminster16 in0.74
Howard County Public SchoolsEllicott City11.4 in0.86
The schools

22 schools

Every school in Allegany follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Mountain Ridge High School, Frostburg
  • Allegany High
  • Fort Hill High
  • Center for Career & Technical Education, Cresaptown

Middle

  • Braddock Middle
  • Washington Middle
  • Mount Savage Middle, Mount Savage
  • Westmar Middle, Lonaconing

Elementary

  • South Penn Elementary
  • Beall Elementary, Frostburg
  • West Side Elementary
  • Cash Valley Elementary, Lavale
  • Northeast Elementary
  • George's Creek Elementary, Lonaconing
  • Cresaptown Elementary, Cresaptown
  • John Humbird Elementary
  • Westernport Elementary, Westernport
  • Frost Elementary, Frostburg
  • Bel Air Elementary
  • Mt. Savage Elementary, Mt Savage
  • Flintstone Elementary, Flintstone
  • Parkside Elementary, Lavale
Questions

Allegany snow day questions

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More winter

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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.