Arlington County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

Arlington announces closings evening by 6 p.m. when possible; morning closings or delays announced by 5 a.m, by its own published protocol.

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

It can. Arlington has remote learning 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.

June 17, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Arlington 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 Arlington’s own big snow morning: 3.6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.2 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.