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Penn-Trafford School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Penn-Trafford, measured against Penn-Trafford's own big snow morning of 3.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Penn-Trafford close tomorrow?

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

Penn-Trafford’s snow record

17.1inches of snow a winter
1.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.5with 4 in or more
3.2 ina big snow morning in Penn-Trafford: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
0.4Nov
4.4Dec
5.7Jan
3.8Feb
2.6Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.1 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 32.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6 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 Pennsylvania rule

How Pennsylvania counts a lost day

Pennsylvania requires either 180 days, or hours: 900 for kindergarten through grade 6 and 990 for grades 7 to 12, as the district chooses. The state forgives no days; districts are expected to build make-up days into the calendar for closures beyond any Flexible Instructional Days.

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

Next door

Districts near Penn-Trafford

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Franklin Regional School DistrictMurrysville17.1 in0.5
Greensburg Salem School DistrictGreensburg17.5 in0.5
Norwin School DistrictNorth Huntingdon17.1 in0.5
Hempfield Area School DistrictGreensburg17.1 in0.5
Gateway School DistrictMonroeville17.1 in0.5
East Allegheny School DistrictNorth Versailles10.1 in0.3
The schools

8 schools

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

High

  • Penn Trafford HS, Harrison City

Middle

  • Penn MS, Jeannette
  • Trafford MS, Trafford

Elementary

  • McCullough El Sch, Jeannette
  • Harrison Park El Sch, Jeannette
  • Sunrise El Sch, Irwin
  • Level Green El Sch, Trafford
  • Trafford El Sch, Trafford
Questions

Penn-Trafford snow day questions

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More winter

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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.