Amherst County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

About 12.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 13.9 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 0.8 with 4 inches or more.

15.4 inches on December 10, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 13.9 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 29.2 inches.

Amherst averages 0.8 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 84 percent of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Amherst 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 Amherst’s own big snow morning: 6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 13.9 miles away.

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.