Henrico County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

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

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

June 4, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 7.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.9 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.1 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.2 with 4 inches or more.

11.5 inches on December 9, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 3.9 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 13.1 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Henrico 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 Henrico’s own big snow morning: 2.4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.9 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.