Lake Orion Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

Lake Orion announces closings as early as possible, but often the morning of a school day, by its own published protocol.

By email, text message, phone call, local TV, radio, the district website and social media, and on the district’s own closings page.

June 11, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 31.3 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 10.3 miles away, averaged over 9 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.9 with 4 inches or more.

7.3 inches on January 18, 2020, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 10.3 miles away in 9 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 49.4 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Lake Orion 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 Lake Orion’s own big snow morning: 3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 10.3 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.