New Mexico snow day predictor
Nothing in the New Mexico forecast this week that closes schools · Las Vegas averages 22 in a year, Portales 8 in
New Mexico towns, ranked
- Las Vegasaverages 22 inches a year · moderate snow0%no chance
- Gallupaverages 21 inches a year · moderate snow0%no chance
- Santa Feaverages 20 inches a year · moderate snow0%no chance
- Clovisaverages 13 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
- Españolaaverages 11 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
- Roswellaverages 10 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
- Rio Ranchoaverages 9 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
- Farmingtonaverages 9 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
- Albuquerqueaverages 8 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
- Portalesaverages 8 inches a year · occasional snow0%no chance
How snow days work in New Mexico
There is no single New Mexico snow day threshold, which is why this page scores each town separately. Las Vegas averages 22 inches of snow a year against Portales’s 8, and a district that plans for the first amount does not close for weather that would shut the second one down.
Each score compares what the National Weather Service is forecasting against that town’s own NOAA 1991-2020 snowfall normal, then adds weight for ice, wind and dangerous cold. Every number on this page links through to the full factor breakdown, because the reasoning is the part worth checking.
Sources: National Weather Service forecasts, one per town. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.