No snow this morning, but “Isolated flurries before noon, then scattered snow showers, mainly after 1pm”
Brian
Cleveland’s expected to get our first snow tomorrow, too. Right now, it’s that all-day sort of rain, and temperatures look like they’ll plummet overnight and turn that rain into snow.
When I lived in Bozeman, we had a white Halloween nearly every year. First snow was usually sometime in September, but it usually melted off of everything but car roofs by the time civilized people woke up. You get used to it.
Chicago area got a dusting last night. Sun shining right now, but a couple inches expected tonight. Hoping to golf on Thursday. 50F predicted.
I’m a little closer to the lake than you are, and tonight’s predicted snow is going to be of the lake-effect variety. Depending on which forecast I look at, I could be in for anywhere from 2" to 9" overnight, into the early morning. A lot depends on exactly which direction the wind will be blowing at the time.
My daughter’s really close to the lake, and just reported they’re e pe ting 3-5 inches. Also, they told teachers and kids schools are definitely open.
How much didja get? Our lawns/roofs are covered - but only an inch or so. Just a dusting on paved surfaces (which look icy!) (I’m about 10 miles west of kenobi.)
Around here when the first snow of the year is expected to (and often throughout the winter), the seem to act as tho we’ve never seen snow before. I guess they want folk to be careful and prepare for the worst, but I wonder if they underestimate snowfall as frequently as they overestimate it? Of course, the Chicago region is large, with different accumulations in different parts.
Supposed to be 58 degrees today in Bozeman–no snow except on the peaks. Sobering. I know the other shoe will drop, but this isn’t normal. The idea of opening for skiing by Thanksgiving was always kind of a myth, but it’s definitely gone the way of the Dodo in the US West.
My daughter just messaged me that there was only an inch in Edgewater, near the lake.
Now I’m informed that it’s coming down hard in the Windy City. Daughter was told that it was hard even for Chicago. The flakes are huge. She grew up in the DC area, so it isn’t as if she hasn’t seen it snow hard.
Hahahahahaha! Longtime fed here. Couldn’t count the number of times DC shutdown after a mere dusting. Do they even OWN any snowplows? 
They have them, but not enough to get roads cleared quickly when it actually does snow hard. I worked for DC schools, and we alternated between being off for a couple inches and being open when roads were nearly impassable. We’ve had winters where we didn’t get an inch total, and blizzards where it snowed 2 feet.
What you describe is pretty much exactly what I woke up to here. When I went to bed, around 1 a.m., it was snowing quite hard, and I was really surprised to see how little it had amounted to. My suspicion is that the ground is still warm enough that, while more snow fell, a lot of if has already melted.
Yeah - I was yanking your chan a tad. My impression was that ice was more frequently an issue in DC than deep snow.
Right now, sun is in/out, most pavement seems to have cleared, tho temps still slightly below 32F. I may bike this afternoon…
Maybe a tad, but you weren’t that far off.
It was apparently snowing a bit yesterday in Ottawa for the Canadian Premier League final.
From the BBC:
The game was repeatedly delayed so snow could be cleared from the pitch with the lines cleared every 15 minutes, the goalkeepers clearing their boxes with shovels and the match becoming almost unplayable in the second-half. A snowplough had to come onto the pitch before extra-time.
Video and pix in the article:
One pleasant experience related to this light snow.
We have several gingkos around us (all male/sterile, so no “fruit.”) Gingkos turn brilliant yellow in the fall, and generally tend to drop all of their leaves essentially at once. One of our standard dog walking routes has a spectacular massive gingko which had been giving a brilliant show this fall. When we saw the snow this morning, we questioned whether it would have dropped its leaves. As we approached the tree, we saw that it had. We noticed the undisturbed snow right there appeared a little deeper, and we started scraping/kicking the snow with our shoes. As we did so, we realized we were kicking up streaks of brilliant yellow, revealing a solid carpet of leaves that had apparently dropped just before the snow and then been covered. A really cool, fleeting experience.
MSP got a bit of graupel yesterday. I wouldn’t call it snow, just some snowy bits between rain and ice. My old home town of Anchorage got a few inches lately, and Valdez, AK, which typically gets about 10 feet every winter got at least a half a foot.
Cleveland was a bust. When I woke up, there was a slight hint of snow on car roofs, but nowhere else, and the ground was wet, but not at all icy. There was a little bit of graupel on the ride in to school, and a picturesque scattering of flakes in the air a few times during the day, but no ground accumulation at all.
I’ve heard that the Snow Belt got more, but not much even there.
My son in Ithaca had to sweep some snow off his car, but not much stuck to the ground.
Around here the back yard looks like winter, with snow piled on top of the barbecue and across the lawn. But the front looks less formidable I guess because of the heat from black pavement. I don’t think any city plows have come by and neither has Snowplow Guy for the driveway, nor was it necessary. There’s rain in the forecast so it should all soon be gone, but this was the earliest persistent snowfall I can remember.