Dubuque Community School District Snow Day Predictor

Dubuque announces closings a delay by 5:15 a.m.; cancel after a delay by 7:15 a.m, by its own published protocol.

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

It can. Dubuque has virtual learning days in its winter plan, up to 5 a year. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

May 27, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 26.7 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.6 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.5 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Dubuque 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 Dubuque’s own big snow morning: 5.1 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.6 miles away.

Iowa requires at least 180 days or 1,080 hours of instruction, as the board chooses. When a board extends the calendar to make up weather closures, it may excuse seniors who have already met graduation requirements.