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Harrison, Michigan, 1,251 students in 4 schools

Harrison Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Harrison, measured against Harrison's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Harrison close tomorrow?

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

Harrison’s snow record

44.8inches of snow a winter
5.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.2with 4 in or more
4 ina big snow morning in Harrison: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
7.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 70% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

4.7Nov
10.3Dec
12.7Jan
11.6Feb
3.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10 in on January 29, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 72.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 8.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 15.9 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 Harrison

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Farwell Area SchoolsFarwell44.8 in2.2
Clare Public SchoolsClare44.8 in2.2
Gladwin Community SchoolsGladwin44.8 in2.2
Houghton Lake Community School DistrictHoughton Lake60.8 in1.9
McBain Rural Agricultural SchoolsMc Bain76.2 in3.1
Mount Pleasant City School DistrictMount Pleasant38.4 in1.4
The schools

4 schools

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

High

  • Harrison Community High School

Middle

  • Harrison Middle School

Elementary

  • Robert M Larson Elementary School

Other schools

  • Harrison Alternative Education
Questions

Harrison 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.