School districts in Missouri currently must provide 1,044 hours of instruction, or approximately 166 days, per school year. Some districts build in snow days to their calendar, while others opt to use up to 36 virtual learning hours instead. The state caps the number of weather makeup days at 10, forgiving any above that cap.

If you saw light pillars shining down from the sky early Tuesday morning in Kansas City, don't fret. You're not crazy, you're eyesight isn't going, and no, we are not experiencing an alien invasion