Wind Chill in New York
New York gets 63 inches of snow per year — but not every storm closes school. Live snow day probability for 19 New York cities, calibrated to local closure thresholds.
New York Winter Profile
New York has one of the most snow-hardened school cultures in the country. Across the 19 New York cities covered by SnowSense™, average annual snowfall is 63 inches, with Syracuse receiving up to 124 inches in a typical winter. Despite that volume, New York districts close school less often than mid-Atlantic districts do — kids, buses, and roads here are built for winter.
What closes New York schools isn't snow accumulation — it's wind chill, ice, or infrastructure failure. Sustained wind chills below −30°F trigger safety-driven cold-day cancellations under most New York districts' protocols. A foot of powder, by contrast, is usually just Tuesday.
The city links above show live snow day probability for every covered New York city. SnowSense™ weighs wind-chill risk separately from accumulation for New York, so a frigid-but-clear day can still register a probability spike when accumulation-only models would show zero.
Cold-Day School Closures in New York
Schools in New York typically close for cold alone when wind chills drop below dangerous thresholds. The exact threshold varies by district — urban districts with walking students tend to close at warmer wind chills than rural districts where all students ride buses.