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Will there be a snow day?
- An estimate from the public forecast. Your school district makes the call.
Why the sign says so
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Snow
How many inches are forecast, against what your area usually handles.
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Timing
Whether it falls overnight or stops early enough for plows to finish.
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Ice
Freezing rain, which closes schools at far smaller amounts than snow.
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Cold
The wind chill while children wait for the bus.
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Wind
Gusts strong enough to drift snow back over cleared roads.
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Alerts
Winter warnings and advisories from Environment Canada.
Set from your province when you check a postal code. Change it if you know your district better.
Worked out in your browser from the Open-Meteo forecast, which draws on Environment Canada's weather models. No account, no cookies.
The chance school is closed or delayed in Nova Scotia. Enter a postal code or pick a town.
Will there be a snow day tomorrow in Nova Scotia?
Pick a town above or enter your postal code. The sign answers for the next school morning: after 9 a.m. that is tomorrow, and on a Friday evening it is Monday. It also gives the chance of a two-hour delay instead of a closure, and you can look two more school days ahead.
How much snow closes school in Nova Scotia
The calculator starts Nova Scotia at the setting "used to snow": about 15 cm of snow overnight, 3.8 mm of ice or a morning wind chill near -32°C makes closing a coin flip. That starting point is our judgement from how much snow the province normally gets, not a record of what districts did.
A province is a blunt unit. A mountain district and a city district in the same province can be far apart, and so can two superintendents. If you know your district closes more or less readily than this, change the setting under the result.
| Snow | Closed | Late start instead |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5 cm | 3% | 2% |
| 5.1 cm | 6% | 9% |
| 10 cm | 21% | 42% |
| 15 cm | 50% | 44% |
| 25 cm | 94% | 5% |
The same snow counts for less when it stops before midnight, and ice, cold, wind and weather-service alerts are added on top. How much snow it takes in every state. The full method.
Towns in Nova Scotia
Who decides in Nova Scotia
Each school board decides for itself, and often cancels buses while schools stay open, usually before dawn. There is no province-wide snow day call, so check your own district's announcement. How districts choose between a delay and a closure.