Sedalia, Missouri, 5,069 students in 9 schools

Sedalia 200 School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Sedalia get?

About 12.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away, averaged over 9 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.6 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Sedalia 200?

8 inches on January 12, 2019, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away in 9 winters. The snowiest winter was 2019 to 2020, with 24.3 inches.

Q: Does Sedalia 200 get more snow days than other Missouri districts?

Sedalia 200 averages 0.6 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 83 percent of the 494 Missouri districts with a station record.

Q: How does the Sedalia 200 snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Sedalia 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 Sedalia 200’s own big snow morning: 4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Sedalia 200, measured against Sedalia 200's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Sedalia 200 close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Sedalia.

Ten winters of school mornings

Sedalia 200’s snow record

12.1inches of snow a winter

1.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.6with 4 in or more

4 ina big snow morning in Sedalia 200: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 83% of the 494 Missouri districts with a station record.

1.1Nov

1.1Dec

4.2Jan

3.7Feb

1.3Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 8 in on January 12, 2019
Snowiest winter 2019 to 2020, 24.3 in
6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
1 in mornings 3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.4 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.

The Missouri rule

How Missouri counts a lost day

Missouri requires at least 1,044 hours of actual pupil attendance, plus 36 make-up hours built into the calendar for bad weather. A district must make up the first 36 weather hours and half of any hours beyond that, but never more than 60 make-up hours in total; anything past that is excused.

The Missouri rules in the agency’s own words, and every Missouri district

Next door

Districts near Sedalia 200

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Warrensburg R-VI School DistrictWarrensburg	11.9 in	0.5
Columbia 93 School DistrictColumbia	14.9 in	0.9
Camdenton R-III School DistrictCamdenton	4 in	0.3
Grain Valley R-V School DistrictGrain Valley	10.9 in	0.6
Jefferson City Public SchoolsJefferson City	7.3 in	0
Blue Springs R-IV School DistrictBlue Springs	15.3 in	0.9

The schools

9 schools

Every school in Sedalia 200 follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

Smith-Cotton High School

Middle

Smith Cotton Junior High Schl
Sedalia Middle School

Elementary

Skyline Elem.
Parkview Elem.
Heber Hunt Elem.
Horace Mann Elem.
Washington Elem.

Other schools

Early Childhood Ctr.

Questions

Sedalia 200 snow day questions

How much snow does Sedalia get?

What was the biggest snow day near Sedalia 200?

Does Sedalia 200 get more snow days than other Missouri districts?

How does the Sedalia 200 snow day predictor work?

How does Missouri handle snow days?

More winter

More for Missouri snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Missouri winter forecastThe season ahead for Missouri: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.