Pocono Mountain School District Snow Day Predictor

By the district website, social media, text message, email, radio and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

June 3, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 49.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.9 miles away, averaged over 7 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 5.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2.4 with 4 inches or more.

13.5 inches on February 2, 2021, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 2.9 miles away in 7 winters. The snowiest winter was 2020 to 2021, with 76.3 inches.

Pocono Mountain averages 2.4 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 92 percent of the 490 Pennsylvania districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Swiftwater 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 Pocono Mountain’s own big snow morning: 4.2 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.9 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.