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Portsmouth, Virginia, 13,161 students in 23 schools

Portsmouth City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Portsmouth, measured against Portsmouth's own big snow morning of 4.7 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Portsmouth close tomorrow?

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

Portsmouth’s snow record

4.2inches of snow a winter
0.6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.1with 4 in or more
4.7 ina big snow morning in Portsmouth: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0Nov
0Dec
4Jan
0.1Feb
0.1Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8 in on January 4, 2018
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 13 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 0.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2 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 Portsmouth

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Norfolk City Public SchoolsNorfolk4.2 in0.1
Chesapeake City Public SchoolsChesapeake5.8 in0.2
Hampton City Public SchoolsHampton4.2 in0.1
Virginia Beach City Public SchoolsVirginia Beach5.8 in0.3
Suffolk City Public SchoolsSuffolk5.3 in0.3
Newport News City Public SchoolsNewport News
The schools

23 schools

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

High

  • Churchland High
  • Manor High
  • I.C. Norcom High

Middle

  • Churchland Middle
  • William E. Waters Middle
  • Cradock Middle

Elementary

  • Churchland Elementary
  • Waterview Elementary
  • Simonsdale Elementary
  • Cradock Elementary
  • Churchland Academy Elementary
  • Victory Elementary
  • Douglass Park Elementary
  • Churchland Primary & Intermediate
  • Westhaven Elementary
  • Park View Elementary
  • Hodges Manor Elementary
  • Brighton Elementary
  • Lakeview Elementary

Other schools

  • Mount Hermon Preschool Center
  • Olive Branch Preschool Center
  • Churchland Preschool Center
  • New Directions Center
Questions

Portsmouth snow day questions

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More winter

More for Virginia snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Virginia winter forecastThe season ahead for Virginia: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.