Forest Hills Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

By phone call, email, text message and the district website, and on the district’s own closings page.

June 9, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 68.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.7 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 7.3 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2.3 with 4 inches or more.

10.5 inches on December 24, 2022, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 2.7 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2022 to 2023, with 110.7 inches.

Forest Hills averages 2.3 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 73 percent of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Grand Rapids through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Forest Hills’s own big snow morning: 3.6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.7 miles away.

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.