Iqaluit, NU snow day calculator
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Snow day–%
Late start–%
Enter a postal code above
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 Iqaluit, NU, on the next school morning.
Will there be a snow day tomorrow in Iqaluit?
The sign above answers for Iqaluit from the current forecast: the chance of a closure, the chance of a late start, and the snow hour by hour through the night. It is for the center of town. Schools at the edge of a district, or at a different elevation, can see different weather, so enter your own postal code if you live further out.
Who decides in Iqaluit
Iqaluit District Education Authority decides whether schools close, start late or move online. The chance above is worked out from the forecast; the official notice is the answer.
How much snow closes school in Iqaluit
The calculator starts Iqaluit at the Nunavut setting, "almost never closes": about 23 cm of snow overnight, or a morning wind chill near -37°C, makes closing a coin flip. That is a starting point for the whole province, and it is our judgement, not a record of what Iqaluit's schools have done. Change the setting under the sign if you know the district closes more or less readily.
| Snow | Closed | Late start instead |
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| 5.1 cm | 4% | 4% |
| 10 cm | 10% | 17% |
| 15 cm | 21% | 42% |
| 25 cm | 61% | 36% |
Snow day calculator for all of Nunavut. Try your own numbers.