Price, Utah, 3,320 students in 9 schools

Carbon School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Price get?

About 15.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 6.7 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.5 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.7 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Carbon?

7.2 inches on February 23, 2022, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 6.7 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2016 to 2017, with 32 inches.

Q: How does the Carbon snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Price 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 Carbon’s own big snow morning: 3.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 6.7 miles away.

Q: How far ahead does the Carbon snow day predictor look?

Three school mornings, as far as the National Weather Service hourly forecast reaches. Weekends and breaks are skipped, so a Friday storm is read for Monday’s buses.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Carbon, measured against Carbon's own big snow morning of 3.8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Carbon close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Price.

Ten winters of school mornings

Carbon’s snow record

15.8inches of snow a winter

2.5school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.7with 4 in or more

3.8 ina big snow morning in Carbon: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

8.8school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0.9Nov

3.8Dec

6.6Jan

3.4Feb

1.1Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 7.2 in on February 23, 2022
Snowiest winter 2016 to 2017, 32 in
6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
1 in mornings 4.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 6.7 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.

The Utah rule

How Utah counts a lost day

Utah requires at least 180 school days of educational services. No fixed count; a district that closes for snow and would fall short of 180 days can ask the State Superintendent for a waiver, granted without Board approval if it built contingency days into its calendar.

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

Next door

Districts near Carbon

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
South Sanpete School DistrictManti	47.4 in	2.6
Nebo School DistrictSpanish Fork	52.6 in	3.2
Provo School DistrictProvo	29.1 in	0.8
Duchesne School DistrictRoosevelt	15.7 in	0.4
Wasatch School DistrictHeber City	64.2 in	3.1
Alpine School DistrictAmerican Fork	18.7 in	0.3

The schools

9 schools

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

High

Carbon High

Middle

Mont Harmon Middle
Helper Middle, Helper

Elementary

Creekview School
Castle Heights School
Sally Mauro School, Helper
Wellington School, Wellington
Bruin Point School, Sunnyside

Other schools

Castle Valley Center

Questions

Carbon snow day questions

How much snow does Price get?

What was the biggest snow day near Carbon?

How does the Carbon snow day predictor work?

How does Utah handle snow days?

How far ahead does the Carbon snow day predictor look?

More winter

More for Utah snow days

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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.