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Houghton, Michigan, 1,478 students in 3 schools

Houghton-Portage Township Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Houghton-Portage Township, measured against Houghton-Portage Township's own big snow morning of 5.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Houghton-Portage Township close tomorrow?

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

Houghton-Portage Township’s snow record

189.4inches of snow a winter
20.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
10.2with 4 in or more
5.8 ina big snow morning in Houghton-Portage Township: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 99% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

18.6Nov
47.2Dec
49.7Jan
42.6Feb
17.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 19.2 in on February 25, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 240 in
  • 6 in mornings 4.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 30.6 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 Houghton-Portage Township

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Calumet Public SchoolsCalumet183.2 in9.9
N.I.C.E. Community SchoolsIshpeming150.8 in6.2
Negaunee Public SchoolsNegaunee193.2 in7.6
Marquette Area Public SchoolsMarquette84.3 in3
Breitung Township SchoolsKingsford61.7 in2.6
Gladstone Area SchoolsGladstone59.9 in3.2
The schools

3 schools

Every school in Houghton-Portage Township follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Houghton Central High School

Middle

  • Houghton Middle School

Elementary

  • Houghton Elementary School
Questions

Houghton-Portage Township 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.