Sunday was the first freeze here. All the window condensation on my car froze up.
On the afternoon a couple weeks ago that the first frost was predicted, I was out picking our last beans and there were flurries or maybe ice pellets, but nothing since. On average we get our snowfall between Nov. 10 and 20. It melts, but once it snows in Dec., that piles up and doesn’t all melt until the end of April, sometimes mid-May. Ugh!
Wait, didn’t you get any in September like we did in Calgary? Oh, I see. You said first snow of the winter. I guess that September snow was the first snow of the fall for us. Or maybe late summer.
September snow? That sounds so absurd as to be unbelievable.
If they can invent a snow that doesn’t stick to roads, driveways, and sidewalks, I’m all for it! I like winter, I just don’t like driving in it or slipping around on icy sidewalks.
Our mountains got snow the last two nights, but nothing on the plains as of yet.
And to think that I was sad because it dropped down into the high 40’s overnight here a couple of times lately!
Six inches on Christmas Eve is very nice. But it should melt by New Year’s Day and stay away till next Christmas.
I was in Boston on the 18th. They had flurries for a few minutes near dusk. Heard the next day that areas in upstate NY just downwind of Lake Ontario had 9" of snow.
I’d been in Boston 4 days earlier and gone walking in a park in a T-short & shorts.
Winter falls quickly up in tundra country. 
Courtesy of snowmaking, Killington was open on the 18 October (that’s a Vermont skis area for you folks who don’t get winter), but their down again.
Courtesy of snowmaking and loving Gaia, Loveland (that’s a Colorado ski area for you folks who don’t get winter) will open tomorrow (or if you don’t read this until tomorrow, will be open today), 29 October.
Let the good times ski!
But how do you float the tow boat when there’s no liquid water around?
And the bikini girls get all shivery.
Skiing on thoroughly liquid water is muuuch nicer.
Where I live, I have seen snow in every month but July.
I’ve seen it in July on the top of Superior.
Where is that? Svalbard?
We got some flurries yesterday. All gone today.
Beautiful sunny Saskatchewan, due north of North Dakota (and Texas!)
A-Basin opened today, too. The excitement is palpable.
Bring it on. The more, the better.
Woke up to half an inch of snow this morning. 
I saw some Halloween lights today, and it made me wish for Christmas lights and snow.