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Brooklyn, Michigan, 1,431 students in 4 schools

Columbia School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Columbia, measured against Columbia's own big snow morning of 2.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Columbia close tomorrow?

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

Columbia’s snow record

28.3inches of snow a winter
2.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
2.5 ina big snow morning in Columbia: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
3.8Nov
5Dec
8.4Jan
8.3Feb
2.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.5 in on November 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 45.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 13.9 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 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 Columbia

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Napoleon Community SchoolsNapoleon28.3 in1.1
Onsted Community SchoolsOnsted24 in1.1
Michigan Center School DistrictMichigan Center28.3 in1.1
Grass Lake Community SchoolsGrass Lake32.1 in1
Hanover-Horton SchoolsHorton31.6 in0.9
Jackson Public SchoolsJackson28.3 in1.1
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Columbia Central High School
  • Columbia Alternative Education, Clarklake

Elementary

  • Columbia Upper Elementary School
  • Columbia Elementary School
Questions

Columbia 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.