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West Branch, Michigan, 1,841 students in 4 schools

West Branch-Rose City Area Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in West Branch-Rose, measured against West Branch-Rose's own big snow morning of 3.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will West Branch-Rose close tomorrow?

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

West Branch-Rose’s snow record

50.6inches of snow a winter
4.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.7with 4 in or more
3.8 ina big snow morning in West Branch-Rose: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 56% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

4.3Nov
12.2Dec
14Jan
13.1Feb
4.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12 in on January 13, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 76.3 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 10.6 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.1 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 West Branch-Rose

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Standish-Sterling Community School DistrictStandish42.9 in1.6
Gladwin Community SchoolsGladwin44.8 in2.2
Tawas Area SchoolsTawas City39.9 in2.7
Houghton Lake Community School DistrictHoughton Lake60.8 in1.9
Pinconning Area SchoolsPinconning42.9 in1.6
Oscoda Area SchoolsOscoda40.4 in1.7
The schools

4 schools

Every school in West Branch-Rose follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Ogemaw Heights High School

Middle

  • Surline Middle School

Elementary

  • Surline Elementary School
  • Rose City School, Rose City
Questions

West Branch-Rose 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.