Westside Community Schools Snow Day Predictor

Westside announces closings no later than 5:30 a.m. the morning of the school day, by its own published protocol.

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

A snow day in Westside is a day off: the district closes rather than going remote.

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

May 28, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Omaha 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 Westside’s own big snow morning: 3.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 5.6 miles away.

Nebraska requires at least 1,032 instructional hours for elementary grades and 1,080 for high school. At the State Board's discretion, a district that closed for severe storms or epidemic sickness keeps its accreditation and state aid, after the board secretary files a sworn statement if fewer hours will be offered.