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Union Township School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Union Township School District, measured against Union Township School District's own big snow morning of 5.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Union Township School District close tomorrow?

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

Union Township School District’s snow record

24.2inches of snow a winter
1.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.2with 4 in or more
5.4 ina big snow morning in Union Township School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 53% of the 486 New Jersey districts with a station record.

0.7Nov
3.9Dec
6.4Jan
9.3Feb
3.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15.1 in on February 1, 2021
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 51.2 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.2 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 New Jersey rule

How New Jersey counts a lost day

New Jersey requires at least 180 days of school, or the district loses state aid.

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

Next door

Districts near Union Township School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Millburn Township School DistrictMillburn24.8 in1.4
South Orange-Maplewood School DistrictMaplewood23.4 in1.4
Hillside Township School DistrictHillside24.2 in1.2
Cranford Township School DistrictCranford24.2 in1.2
Roselle Borough School DistrictRoselle24.2 in1.2
Irvington Township School DistrictIrvington23.4 in1.4
The schools

10 schools

Every school in Union Township School District follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Union High School

Middle

  • Burnet Middle School
  • Kawameeh Middle School
  • Jefferson Elementary

Elementary

  • Hannah Caldwell Elementary
  • Washington Elementary
  • Livingston Elementary
  • Franklin Elementary
  • Connecticut Farms Elementary
  • Battle Hill Elementary
Questions

Union Township School District snow day questions

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More winter

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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.