Raleigh County School District Snow Day Predictor

By email, and on the district’s own closings page.

June 3, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 22.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.4 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.9 with 4 inches or more.

9 inches on December 10, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 40.8 inches.

Raleigh averages 0.9 weekday mornings a winter with 4 inches of new snow or more, more than 77 percent of the 53 West Virginia districts with a station record.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Beckley 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 Raleigh’s own big snow morning: 3.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.4 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.