Fayette County School District Snow Day Predictor

By the district website, social media, local TV, radio and the district app, and on the district’s own closings page.

It can. Fayette has Non Traditional Instruction days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

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

May 26, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 13 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 7.3 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.5 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.3 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Lexington 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 Fayette’s own big snow morning: 2.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 7.3 miles away.

Kentucky requires at least 1,062 instructional hours on at least 170 student attendance days. After an emergency a board may amend its calendar and lengthen or shorten the remaining days by 30 minutes or more, as long as the year still meets the requirement.