Putnam County School District Snow Day Predictor

Putnam announces closings typically by 5:30 a.m, by its own published protocol.

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

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

About 14.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 10.8 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.7 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.7 with 4 inches or more.

7.8 inches on January 7, 2022, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 10.8 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 28.3 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Winfield 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 Putnam’s own big snow morning: 2.9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 10.8 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.