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Albemarle County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Albemarle, measured against Albemarle's own big snow morning of 5.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Albemarle close tomorrow?

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

Albemarle’s snow record

10.6inches of snow a winter
1.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.7with 4 in or more
5.2 ina big snow morning in Albemarle: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 78% of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

0Nov
2.2Dec
5.1Jan
2.4Feb
0.8Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 12.9 in on December 10, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 24 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.2 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 2.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.1 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 Virginia rule

How Virginia counts a lost day

Virginia requires at least 180 teaching days or 990 teaching hours, or state aid is reduced. After 5 closures, only one of every two further days must be made up; the Board of Education can also waive make-up when every reasonable effort is exhausted.

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

Next door

Districts near Albemarle

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Charlottesville City Public SchoolsCharlottesville10.6 in0.7
Fluvanna County Public SchoolsPalmyra10.6 in0.7
Waynesboro City Public SchoolsWaynesboro9.4 in1.1
Orange County Public SchoolsOrange6.1 in0.5
Louisa County Public SchoolsMineral10.6 in0.4
Augusta County Public SchoolsVerona9.4 in1.1
The schools

25 schools

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

High

  • Albemarle High
  • Monticello High
  • Western Albemarle High, Crozet
  • Community Lab School

Middle

  • Joseph T. Henley Middle, Crozet
  • Journey Middle
  • Jackson P. Burley Middle
  • Lakeside Middle
  • Leslie H. Walton Middle

Elementary

  • Mountain View Elementary
  • Baker-Butler Elem
  • Brownsville Elementary, Crozet
  • Crozet Elementary, Crozet
  • Woodbrook Elementary
  • Mary Carr Greer Elementary
  • Stone Robinson Elementary
  • Agnor-Hurt Elementary
  • Ivy Elementary
  • Hollymead Elementary
  • Broadus Wood Elementary, Earlysville
  • Virginia L. Murray Elementary
  • Scottsville Elementary, Scottsville
  • Red Hill Elementary, North Garden
  • Stony Point Elementary, Keswick

Other schools

  • Monticello Governor's Health Sciences Academy
Questions

Albemarle snow day questions

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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.