Salt Lake City School District Snow Day Predictor

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

1 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “Emergency Make Up Day”.

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

May 27, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

About 90.4 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.1 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 9.9 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 5 with 4 inches or more.

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City’s own big snow morning: 6 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.1 miles away.

Utah requires at least 180 school days of educational services. No fixed count; a district that closes for snow and would fall short of 180 days can ask the State Superintendent for a waiver, granted without Board approval if it built contingency days into its calendar.