Forest Lake Public School District Snow Day Predictor

Forest Lake announces closings as early as possible; when conditions may allow school, early in the morning before the start of school, by its own published protocol.

By email, text message, phone call, the district website and local TV, and on the district’s own closings page.

It can. Forest Lake has eLearning days in its winter plan, up to 5 a year. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

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

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Forest Lake 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 Forest Lake’s own big snow morning: 4.3 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 6.7 miles away.

Minnesota requires at least 165 days for grades 1 to 11, plus 935 hours for grades 1 to 6 and 1,020 hours for grades 7 to 12.