Salem School District Snow Day Predictor

By the district app, email, the district website and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

June 17, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 37.5 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 6.2 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 4.3 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.9 with 4 inches or more.

21 inches on March 14, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 6.2 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 69.6 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Salem 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 Salem’s own big snow morning: 9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 6.2 miles away.

New Hampshire requires 180 days or the required hours: 450 in kindergarten, 945 in grades 1 to 6 and 990 in grades 7 to 12. Lost time must be rescheduled with added hours before a district can ask for a waiver of the hours requirement.