Smithtown Central School District Snow Day Predictor

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

3 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “Emergency Closings”.

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

June 24, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 28.5 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 6.6 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.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Smithtown 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 Smithtown’s own big snow morning: 6.1 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 6.6 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.