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Riverside Local School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Riverside Local School District, measured against Riverside Local School District's own big snow morning of 5.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Riverside Local School District close tomorrow?

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

Riverside Local School District’s snow record

88.4inches of snow a winter
10.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
4.9with 4 in or more
5.2 ina big snow morning in Riverside Local School District: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 99% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

7.7Nov
22.2Dec
30.5Jan
14.1Feb
10.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 16 in on January 17, 2022
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 130.6 in
  • 6 in mornings 2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 16.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 8.8 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 Ohio rule

How Ohio counts a lost day

Ohio requires hours, not days: 910 hours for full day kindergarten through grade 6, 1,001 hours for grades 7 to 12, 455 for half day kindergarten. Only hours that drop a school below the state minimum must be made up, by extending the school year.

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

Next door

Districts near Riverside Local School District

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Perry Local School DistrictPerry88.4 in4.9
Mentor Exempted Village School DistrictMentor51.7 in1.9
Chardon Local School DistrictChardon88.4 in4.9
Kirtland Local School DistrictKirtland51.7 in1.9
Madison Local School DistrictMadison88.4 in4.9
Willoughby-Eastlake City School DistrictEastlake51.7 in1.9
The schools

7 schools

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

High

  • Riverside Jr/Sr High School

Middle

  • Henry F Lamuth Middle School

Elementary

  • Riverview Elementary School
  • Parkside Elementary School, Concord Twp
  • Buckeye Elementary School
  • Melridge Elementary School

Other schools

  • Riverside Preschool
Questions

Riverside Local School District 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.