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Lykens, Pennsylvania, 1,038 students in 3 schools

Upper Dauphin Area School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Upper Dauphin, measured against Upper Dauphin's own big snow morning of 4.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Upper Dauphin close tomorrow?

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

Upper Dauphin’s snow record

22.2inches of snow a winter
2.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.2with 4 in or more
4.3 ina big snow morning in Upper Dauphin: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
1.9school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 54% of the 490 Pennsylvania districts with a station record.

1.1Nov
3.7Dec
6Jan
6.6Feb
4.3Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.5 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2020 to 2021, 38.9 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 16 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 Upper Dauphin

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Line Mountain School DistrictHerndon22.2 in1.2
Shamokin Area School DistrictCoal Township34.1 in1.1
Selinsgrove Area School DistrictSelinsgrove22.2 in1.2
Susquehanna Township School DistrictHarrisburg23.8 in1.2
Northern Lebanon School DistrictFredericksburg21.5 in0.9
Susquenita School DistrictDuncannon23.8 in1.2
The schools

3 schools

Every school in Upper Dauphin follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Upper Dauphin Area HS, Elizabethville

Middle

  • Upper Dauphin Area MS

Elementary

  • Upper Dauphin Area El Sch
Questions

Upper Dauphin 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.