Williston Basin Public School District 7 Snow Day Predictor

Williston Basin announces closings by 6:00 AM that day, by its own published protocol.

By text message, phone call, email, the district website and social media, and on the district’s own closings page.

It can. Williston Basin has virtual learning days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

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

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Williston 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 Williston Basin’s own big snow morning: 4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station under a mile away.

North Dakota requires at least 962.5 hours of instruction for elementary students and 1,050 hours for middle and high school students. When weather cancels or cuts short a day, only the lost hours have to be made up, and only if losing them would put the school under its yearly hours.