McFarland School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does McFarland call a snow day?

McFarland announces closings goal of making the decision before 6:00 a.m, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does McFarland announce a snow day?

By phone call, email, the district website and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: Does McFarland switch to remote learning on a snow day?

A snow day in McFarland is a day off: the district closes rather than going remote.

Q: How long is a delayed start in McFarland?

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

Q: When is the last day of school for McFarland?

June 9, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How does the McFarland snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for McFarland 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 McFarland’s own big snow morning: 3.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 7.1 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will McFarland close tomorrow?

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

The McFarland playbook

How McFarland calls a snow day

When the call comes

Goal of making the decision before 6:00 a.m.

“We will make a decision about closing school for inclement weather as soon as possible with a goal of making the decision before 6:00 a.m.”

Source

How families hear

By phone call, email, the district website and local TV.

“School closings will be announced via Infinite Campus messages to families, posted on the District’s website, and shared on local television stations.”

McFarland School District - Weather Related Closures

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“If a two hour delay is used, the start time for each building will be: MPS-9:45, WIS-9:55, IMMS-10:20, MHS-10:20.”

Delay schedule

A snow day is a day off

McFarland closes rather than going remote.

“Snow and ice days will be considered “traditional snow days” and will not include virtual instruction.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day September 1, 2026
Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
Last day June 9, 2027

District calendar

Read from McFarland’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is mcfarland.k12.wi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

McFarland’s snow record

39.5inches of snow a winter

4.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.4with 4 in or more

3.9 ina big snow morning in McFarland: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

9.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

3.5Nov

7.1Dec

12.7Jan

8.1Feb

6.2Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 11.7 in on November 30, 2025
Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 71.7 in
6 in mornings 0.4 a winter
1 in mornings 6.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7.1 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 Wisconsin rule

How Wisconsin counts a lost day

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

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

Next door

Districts near McFarland

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Monona Grove School DistrictMonona	39.5 in	1.4
Madison Metropolitan School DistrictMadison	39.5 in	1.4
Oregon School DistrictOregon	39.5 in	1.4
Stoughton Area School DistrictStoughton	35.5 in	1.5
Sun Prairie Area School DistrictSun Prairie	46.4 in	1.8	3
Middleton-Cross Plains School DistrictMiddleton	48.3 in	2.2

The schools

9 schools

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

High

Wisconsin Virtual Academy High (WIVA)
McFarland High
Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin High
Insight School of Wisconsin High

Middle

Indian Mound Middle

Elementary

Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA)
Waubesa Intermediate
Conrad Elvehjem Primary School

Other schools

4K McFarland

Questions

McFarland snow day questions

When does McFarland call a snow day?

How does McFarland announce a snow day?

Does McFarland switch to remote learning on a snow day?

How long is a delayed start in McFarland?

When is the last day of school for McFarland?

How does the McFarland snow day predictor work?

How does Wisconsin handle snow days?

More winter

More for Wisconsin snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Wisconsin winter forecastThe season ahead for Wisconsin: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

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.