April nor'easters in Maine are not common, and this one will last a couple of days.

So the big question becomes: how many days will school be closed?

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Snow, freezing rain, rain, and ice are all in the forecast for Maine. At some point, the coast will see it all, and inland is looking at a wet, heavy, power outage-causing snow!

It looks like it starts Wednesday and then really gets cranking Thursday, wrapping up sometime Friday. So how will your school handle this? That depends on a couple of things, the first being your location.

How can I tell early if school will be canceled?

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All you have to do is use the handy-dandy...

SNOW DAY CALCULATOR

All you need is a couple of pieces of information: the zip code for the school, what kind of school is it (public/private), and how many snow days you've had this year.

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It's like reading the future! And who wouldn't want to do that? Do you have traditions you do to ensure you get a snow day? Here are some that have worked in the past (and I don't know how, but they do work)!

  • Put your snow boots by your bed (to tell the snow gods that you WILL be wearing them?)
  • Put ice cubes in the toilets (no clue how this works)
  • Put a spoon under your pillow (your guess is as good as mine)

Either way, be safe and enjoy it while it lasts, because it looks like by next Monday, April 8 (the day of the solar eclipse), it will be in the mid-50s!

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