La Crosse School District Snow Day Predictor

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

May 28, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 51.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 4.4 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2.2 with 4 inches or more.

11.8 inches on April 2, 2024, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 78.7 inches.

La Crosse averages 2.2 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 64 percent of the 412 Wisconsin districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for La Crosse 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 La Crosse’s own big snow morning: 4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.3 miles away.

Wisconsin requires hours, not days: 437 for kindergarten, 1,050 for grades 1 to 6 and 1,137 for grades 7 to 12.