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Columbus, Nebraska, 4,145 students in 9 schools

Columbus Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Columbus, measured against Columbus's own big snow morning of 5.9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Columbus close tomorrow?

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

Columbus’s snow record

17.6inches of snow a winter
1.7school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
5.9 ina big snow morning in Columbus: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
6.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
1.2Nov
2.5Dec
6.1Jan
4.8Feb
2.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12 in on January 22, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 32.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.1 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 Nebraska rule

How Nebraska counts a lost day

Nebraska requires at least 1,032 instructional hours for elementary grades and 1,080 for high school. At the State Board's discretion, a district that closed for severe storms or epidemic sickness keeps its accreditation and state aid, after the board secretary files a sworn statement if fewer hours will be offered.

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

Next door

Districts near Columbus

DistrictSnow a winter4 in morningsBuilt in days
Norfolk Public SchoolsNorfolk25 in1.3
Fremont Public SchoolsFremont24.5 in0.82
Lincoln Public SchoolsLincoln23.8 in0.6
Elkhorn Public SchoolsElkhorn19.6 in1
Gretna Public SchoolsGretna26.2 in1.2
Bennington Public SchoolsBennington19.6 in1
The schools

9 schools

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

High

  • Columbus High School

Middle

  • Columbus Middle School

Elementary

  • Centennial Elementary School
  • Lost Creek Elementary Sch
  • North Park Elementary
  • Emerson Elementary School
  • West Park Elementary

Other schools

  • Kramer Education Center
  • Pathways Beyond/Early Steps To Success Building
Questions

Columbus 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.