Middle Country Central School District Snow Day Predictor

By radio and phone call, and on the district’s own closings page.

It can. Middle Country has remote learning days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

June 25, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 26.8 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 5.5 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 3.1 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.6 with 4 inches or more.

19 inches on February 23, 2026, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 5.5 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 55 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Centereach 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 Middle Country’s own big snow morning: 7 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 5.5 miles away.

New York requires 180 days of session plus 900 hours a year for kindergarten to grade 6 and 990 hours for grades 7 to 12. The Commissioner can excuse up to 5 days closed for extraordinary weather, but only if the district cannot make them up by using all its scheduled vacation days before the June Regents exams.