Waterford School District Snow Day Predictor

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

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

About 32.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.1 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.3 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.1 with 4 inches or more.

8 inches on March 4, 2023, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 4.1 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2021 to 2022, with 43.2 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Waterford 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 Waterford’s own big snow morning: 2 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.1 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.