Long Branch, New Jersey, 5,400 students in 8 schools
Long Branch City School District Snow Day Predictor
The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Long Branch, measured against Long Branch's own big snow morning of 4.8 inches.
The next three school mornings
Will Long Branch close tomorrow?
Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Long Branch.
Ten winters of school mornings
Long Branch’s snow record
16.5inches of snow a winter
2school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
0.9with 4 in or more
4.8 ina big snow morning in Long Branch: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0Nov
2.5Dec
5.8Jan
7.7Feb
0.5Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
Biggest day 11.5 in on January 29, 2022
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 39.2 in
6 in mornings 0.5 a winter
1 in mornings 3.1 a winter
Measured at a NOAA weather station under a mile away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.
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The New Jersey rule
How New Jersey counts a lost day
New Jersey requires at least 180 days of school, or the district loses state aid.
Every school in Long Branch follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.
High
Long Branch High School
Middle
Long Branch Middle School
Elementary
George L Catrambone
A A Anastasia Elementary School
Gregory Elementary School
Other schools
Lenna W. Conrow Elementary School
Joseph M. Ferraina Early Childhood Learning Center
Morris Avenue Elementry School
Questions
Long Branch snow day questions
About 16.5 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station under a mile away, averaged over 8 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 2 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.9 with 4 inches or more.
11.5 inches on January 29, 2022, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station under a mile away in 8 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 39.2 inches.
It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Long Branch 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 Long Branch’s own big snow morning: 4.8 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station under a mile away.
New Jersey requires at least 180 days of school, or the district loses state aid.
A virtual or remote day counts toward the 180 days only when schools close for more than three consecutive days because of a declared state of emergency, a declared public health emergency or a health agency directive, under a program the commissioner approved.
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0
The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.
