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Big Rapids, Michigan, 2,383 students in 6 schools

Big Rapids Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Big Rapids, measured against Big Rapids's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Big Rapids close tomorrow?

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

Big Rapids’s snow record

47.2inches of snow a winter
5.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.8with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Big Rapids: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
5.5school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 58% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

4.1Nov
10.8Dec
15.9Jan
11.3Feb
4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 11 in on January 13, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 59.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 9.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 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 Michigan rule

How Michigan counts a lost day

Michigan requires at least 180 days and 1,098 hours of pupil instruction. The first 6 days (or the same hours) lost to conditions outside the district's control, such as severe storms, are counted as instruction; up to 3 more can be approved by the State Superintendent.

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

Next door

Districts near Big Rapids

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Reed City Area Public SchoolsReed City47.2 in1.8
Chippewa Hills School DistrictRemus47.2 in1.8
Lakeview Community SchoolsLakeview46.8 in1.8
Newaygo Public School DistrictNewaygo57.3 in1.3
Fremont Public School DistrictFremont57.3 in1.3
Tri County Area SchoolsSand Lake46.8 in1.8
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Big Rapids High School

Middle

  • Big Rapids Middle School

Elementary

  • Brookside Elementary School
  • Riverview Elementary School

Other schools

  • Eastwood Elementary
  • Big Rapids Virtual School
Questions

Big Rapids 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.