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Widefield School District 3 Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Widefield, measured against Widefield's own big snow morning of 4.1 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Widefield close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Colorado Springs.
Ten winters of school mornings

Widefield’s snow record

31.6inches of snow a winter
2.9school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
4.1 ina big snow morning in Widefield: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.6Nov
3.6Dec
7.8Jan
7.3Feb
3.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 13 in on January 9, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2024 to 2025, 59.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.6 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 5.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.9 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.

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The Colorado rule

How Colorado counts a lost day

Colorado requires at least 160 days, with 1,080 scheduled hours in secondary school and 990 in elementary. The scheduled hours can drop to 1,056 (secondary), 968 (elementary), 870 (full-day kindergarten) or 435 (half-day kindergarten) to cover conferences, staff training and closings the board judges necessary for student health, safety or welfare.

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

Next door

Districts near Widefield

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Harrison School District 2Colorado Springs44.5 in1.3
Cheyenne Mountain School District 12Colorado Springs42.9 in1.3
Colorado Springs School District 11Colorado Springs38.5 in1
Fountain School District 8Fountain31.6 in1
Academy School District 20Colorado Springs59.5 in2.3
School District 49Peyton50.1 in2.1
The schools

18 schools

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

High

  • Mesa Ridge High School
  • Widefield High School
  • Discovery High School

Middle

  • Janitell Junior High School, Fountain
  • Sproul Junior High School
  • Watson Junior High School

Elementary

  • Grand Mountain School
  • Webster Elementary School
  • Sunrise Elementary School
  • Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School
  • French Elementary School
  • Widefield Elementary School of the Arts
  • Talbott STEAM Innovation School
  • Pinello Elementary School
  • Venetucci Elementary School
  • James Madison Charter Academy School

Other schools

  • Widefield District 3 Preschool
  • The Haven School
Questions

Widefield snow day questions

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More winter

More for Colorado 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.