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Whitehall, Michigan, 1,923 students in 5 schools

Whitehall School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Whitehall, measured against Whitehall's own big snow morning of 4.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Whitehall close tomorrow?

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

Whitehall’s snow record

68.7inches of snow a winter
10.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3with 4 in or more
4.2 ina big snow morning in Whitehall: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 81% of the 515 Michigan districts with a station record.

4.9Nov
16.6Dec
25.5Jan
14.9Feb
4.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.5 in on October 31, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 109.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 16.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.5 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 Whitehall

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Montague Area Public SchoolsMontague68.7 in3
Reeths-Puffer SchoolsMuskegon68.3 in2.6
Orchard View SchoolsMuskegon68.3 in2.6
Muskegon City School DistrictMuskegon68.3 in2.6
Shelby Public SchoolsShelby77.7 in3
Oakridge Public SchoolsMuskegon68.3 in2.6
The schools

5 schools

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

High

  • Whitehall Senior High School

Middle

  • Whitehall Middle School

Elementary

  • Shoreline Elementary School
  • Whitehall Ealy Elem School

Other schools

  • White Lake Area Community Education, Muskegon
Questions

Whitehall 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.