Roanoke County Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

About 9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2.6 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 0.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0 with 4 inches or more.

15 inches on December 9, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 2.6 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2018 to 2019, with 19.6 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Roanoke 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 Roanoke County Public Schools’s own big snow morning: 3.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2.6 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.

A division can declare an unscheduled remote learning day when weather closes buildings, up to 10 a year unless the state superintendent extends it, without losing state aid.