Snow day predictor for Northwest Territories

A snow-day forecast point for Yellowknife. No territorial board page is published here.

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Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Updated Nov 4, 2026, 9:18 p.m.. Matched Yellowknife. Typical snow tolerance (snow points × 1). High cold sensitivity.

The morning decision window has passed in this time zone. Tomorrow is the score to watch.

0%Snow day chance

School is probably on

Pack your bag. This forecast does not suggest a closure.

Buses: 0% chance of a cancellation or delay. Higher confidence.

0.0 cmSnowfall
0.0 cm/hPeak intensity
1.1°C8 a.m. temperature
-2.6°CWind chill
18 km/hWind
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Snowfall · 0 pts
Overnight timing · 0 pts
Temperature and wind chill · 0 pts
Freezing rain · 0 pts
Wind · 0 pts

Biggest factor: nothing strong in the overnight window.

What should I do? Pack the school bag. Still check your board in the morning in case the buses are cancelled.

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Weather data: Open-Meteo. Postal codes use GeoNames forward-sortation centroids (CC BY 4.0); an unknown area falls back to OpenStreetMap Nominatim. This is an estimate, not a school-board announcement. Estimate only. Check your board.

The Northwest Territories runs its own schools. This site does not document a territorial snow-day rule and does not link a board page we have not checked. The hub forecast is for Yellowknife. The city page carries the ERA5 snowfall and January temperature for that point.

Communities away from Yellowknife should not inherit its score by assumption. Search the community or the postal code. The percentage is not a direction from a territorial office.

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  • Yellowknife — Yellowknife forecast point: 75.3 cm of snow a year and a January mean of -23.2°C in ERA5, 2014–2023.

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Questions parents ask

Is the Yellowknife score for every community?

No. It is the forecast point on this page. Other communities need their own search. We will not stretch one city score across the territory.

Why is there no board link?

We have not checked a territorial school-board page to the standard we use for the boards that have pages on this site. Until that check exists, we do not invent a link.