Pittston Area School District Snow Day Predictor

About 31.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.9 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.3 with 4 inches or more.

15.5 inches on March 15, 2017, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 3.9 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2016 to 2017, with 55.3 inches.

Pittston averages 1.3 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 64 percent of the 490 Pennsylvania districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Pittston 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 Pittston’s own big snow morning: 3.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.9 miles away.

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.