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Orchard Park Central School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Orchard Park, measured against Orchard Park's own big snow morning of 4.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Orchard Park close tomorrow?

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

Orchard Park’s snow record

92.2inches of snow a winter
8.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.4with 4 in or more
4.2 ina big snow morning in Orchard Park: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 72% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

8.1Nov
24.4Dec
30.8Jan
16.8Feb
9.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 27.1 in on December 24, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 133.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.7 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 16.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 9 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 Orchard Park

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
West Seneca Central School DistrictWest Seneca69 in2.6
Lackawanna City School DistrictLackawanna69 in2.6
East Aurora Union Free School DistrictEast Aurora113.4 in5.3
Depew Union Free School DistrictDepew92.2 in3.4
Iroquois Central School DistrictElma113.4 in5.3
Hamburg Central School DistrictHamburg69.6 in2.8
The schools

6 schools

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

High

  • Orchard Park High School, Orchard Park

Middle

  • Orchard Park Middle School, Orchard Park

Elementary

  • Ellicott Road Elementary School, Orchard Park
  • Windom Elementary School, Orchard Park
  • Eggert Road Elementary School, Orchard Park
  • South Davis Elementary School, Orchard Park
Questions

Orchard Park 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.