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Augusta County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Augusta, measured against Augusta's own big snow morning of 8 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Augusta close tomorrow?

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

Augusta’s snow record

9.4inches of snow a winter
1.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.1with 4 in or more
8 ina big snow morning in Augusta: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

More 4 inch school mornings than 95% of the 116 Virginia districts with a station record.

0Nov
2.4Dec
4.4Jan
1.2Feb
1.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 10 in on December 10, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 17.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 1.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 10.9 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 Augusta

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Waynesboro City Public SchoolsWaynesboro9.4 in1.1
Harrisonburg City Public SchoolsHarrisonburg10.8 in0.6
Rockingham County Public SchoolsHarrisonburg10.8 in0.6
Charlottesville City Public SchoolsCharlottesville10.6 in0.7
Albemarle County Public SchoolsCharlottesville10.6 in0.7
Amherst County Public SchoolsAmherst12.1 in0.8
The schools

18 schools

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

High

  • Wilson Memorial High, Fishersville
  • Fort Defiance High, Fort Defiance
  • Stuarts Draft High, Stuarts Draft
  • Riverheads High, Staunton
  • Buffalo Gap High, Swoope

Middle

  • Wilson Middle, Fishersville
  • Beverley Manor Middle, Staunton
  • S. Gordon Stewart Middle, Fort Defiance
  • Stuarts Draft Middle, Stuarts Draft

Elementary

  • Edward G. Clymore Elementary, Fort Defiance
  • Riverheads Elementary, Staunton
  • Wilson Elementary, Fishersville
  • Cassell Elementary, Waynesboro
  • Stuarts Draft Elementary, Stuarts Draft
  • Guy K. Stump Elementary, Stuarts Draft
  • Churchville Elementary, Churchville
  • North River Elementary, Mount Solon
  • Craigsville Elementary, Craigsville
Questions

Augusta snow day questions

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More winter

More for Virginia snow days

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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.