Kanawha County School District Snow Day Predictor

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

It can. Kanawha has Non Traditional Instruction 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.

May 28, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 18.1 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 3.1 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2.3 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.6 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Charleston 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 Kanawha’s own big snow morning: 2.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 3.1 miles away.

West Virginia requires at least 900 instructional hours a year, with each county setting the length of its days. The State Superintendent may lower the minimum in a county under a federal disaster declaration or a Governor's emergency declaration tied to the lost hours.