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Kenmore-Tonawanda Union Free School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Kenmore-Tonawanda, measured against Kenmore-Tonawanda's own big snow morning of 3.4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Kenmore-Tonawanda close tomorrow?

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

Kenmore-Tonawanda’s snow record

72.6inches of snow a winter
7.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
2.6with 4 in or more
3.4 ina big snow morning in Kenmore-Tonawanda: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 53% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

5.5Nov
17.2Dec
24Jan
15.6Feb
8.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 18 in on December 24, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 94.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.9 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 13.7 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.

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The New York rule

How New York counts a lost day

New York requires 180 days of session plus 900 hours a year for kindergarten to grade 6 and 990 hours for grades 7 to 12. The Commissioner can excuse up to 5 days closed for extraordinary weather, but only if the district cannot make them up by using all its scheduled vacation days before the June Regents exams.

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

Next door

Districts near Kenmore-Tonawanda

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Tonawanda City School DistrictTonawanda72.6 in2.6
Sweet Home Central School DistrictAmherst75.2 in2.6
Amherst Central School DistrictAmherst69 in2.6
North Tonawanda City School DistrictNorth Tonawanda75.2 in2.6
Cleveland Hill Union Free School DistrictCheektowaga69 in2.6
Grand Island Central School DistrictGrand Island54.8 in1.6
The schools

10 schools

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

High

  • Kenmore West Senior High School
  • Kenmore East Senior High School, Tonawanda
  • Kenmore Junior-Senior High School, Kenmore

Middle

  • Herbert Hoover Middle School
  • Ben Franklin Middle School

Elementary

  • Thomas A Edison Elementary School, Tonawanda
  • Herbert Hoover Elementary School
  • Charles A Lindbergh Elementary School
  • Ben Franklin Elementary School
  • Holmes Elementary School, Tonawanda
Questions

Kenmore-Tonawanda 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.