MIT student David Sukhin, who is behind the Snow Day Calculator that helps predict school closings, poses for a photo, in Cambridge. Like so many inventions, the calculator — which started out online ...

It sounds like a gimmick Bart Simpson would dream up, but the "Snow Day Calculator" is real.

MIT senior uses algorithm to make u2028snow day calculator It factors in weather service and school data – plus media hype – to calculate the odds.