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Potsdam, New York, 1,336 students in 3 schools

Potsdam Central School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Potsdam, measured against Potsdam's own big snow morning of 4.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Potsdam close tomorrow?

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

Potsdam’s snow record

107.3inches of snow a winter
11.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.6with 4 in or more
4.5 ina big snow morning in Potsdam: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 88% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

11Nov
20.7Dec
31.6Jan
24.6Feb
15Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 19 in on March 15, 2017
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 134.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 18.2 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.4 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 Potsdam

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Canton Central School DistrictCanton107.3 in4.6
Massena Central School DistrictMassena107.3 in4.6
Ogdensburg City School DistrictOgdensburg84.5 in3.1
Salmon River Central School DistrictFort Covington95.9 in4
Gouverneur Central School DistrictGouverneur84.5 in3.1
Malone Central School DistrictMalone95.9 in4
The schools

3 schools

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

High

  • Potsdam Senior High School

Middle

  • A A Kingston Middle School

Elementary

  • Lawrence Avenue Elementary School
Questions

Potsdam 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.