Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District Snow Day Predictor

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

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

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

About 28.5 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 5.2 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.3 with 4 inches or more.

23.5 inches on January 29, 2022, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 5.2 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 65.9 inches.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Patchogue 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 Patchogue-Medford’s own big snow morning: 6.1 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 5.2 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.