# First snow of the year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031 "2023-10-24T19:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/1 "2023-10-24T19:00:45Z")
We got it overnight. Several centimetres, it looks like. I woke up to the sound of my keenly energetic neighbour shovelling his sidewalk and thought « that can’t be good. » > **[4 reported collisions as first snowfall hits Regina - Regina | Globalnews.ca](https://globalnews.ca/news/10045564/regina-first-snowfall-collisions/amp/)** > > On Tuesday morning, the Regina Police Service responded to four reported vehicle collisions as the city saw the first snowfall of the season. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/2 "2023-10-24T19:08:57Z")
Supposed to get mine in two days. Now that I no longer work from home, I’m _really_ not looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/3 "2023-10-24T20:21:50Z")
It’s 80°f in Chicago today, so my money says it snows by or on halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/4 "2023-10-24T20:25:09Z")
No kidding. It’s simply beautiful out today, mid-70’s and calm. Weather Dude says it’s gonna be snowing tomorrow/Thursday. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/5 "2023-10-24T20:27:57Z")
We got the same. Snow started last night, and we awoke to about three or four inches. I have a keenly energetic neighbour too, and sure enough, he was out shovelling. It’s supposed to get warmer by the weekend, so the snow will melt, but it is a sign that summer is over. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/6 "2023-10-24T20:30:04Z")
My weather report says 70’s for the next three days. No sign of snow – oh, wait a minute. Just refreshed that page. Well, maybe, out at the very end of the forecast a week from now: > A chance of rain and snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 40%. IME a week-out forecast like that for this area may turn, by the time we actually get there, into anything from sun all day and 59º, to snow all day and 27º; though the chances are pretty good that there’ll be a bit of drizzle and/or a few snowflakes mixed with some sun and some clouds. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/7 "2023-10-24T21:10:35Z")
Winter storm warning here, 6-12" after it was 70 the last few days. The shoe was bound to drop. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/8 "2023-10-24T22:17:09Z")
I’m not gonna say a thing. Enjoy your comfy blanket of white wonderfulness. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/9 "2023-10-24T22:47:03Z")
Calgary was nuts last night and this morning. I stayed at work until 8 hoping the traffic would settle. Crowchild trail (a six lane artery) had two buses jackknifed and several cars and trucks beached in various locations and predicaments. One of the buses and a friendly car it had snuggled up to were still blocking traffic in the morning. We hadn’t booked the vans in for their winter tires yet and one of the guys called me after driving to his first job to announce he was going home and getting off the road. Was in shorts til Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/10 "2023-10-24T22:48:45Z")
Back in the early 80s Indianapolis would get flurries about this time of the year. Now, it’ll be mid-to-late November before we probably see any white stuff. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/11 "2023-10-24T22:56:48Z")
Yesterday a friend and I were hiking up Mt. Washington (Vancouver Island) and it was absolutely gorgeous out and looked like this: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53283776659_f9c1ff3666_b.jpg "IMG\_6081") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/53283776659/in/dateposted-public/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53283657883_8aeb59b0d3_b.jpg "IMG\_6083") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/53283657883/in/dateposted-public/) Today it’s under 6 inches of snow. Bonus feeding Whiskey Jacks photo: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53283776999_c1acfbd337_b.jpg "IMG\_6105") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/53283776999/in/dateposted-public/) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/12 "2023-10-24T23:02:33Z")
What is this October snow thing of which you speak? [![](https://i.ibb.co/DK7Vp06/Fire-Danger.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/DK7Vp06/Fire-Danger.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/13 "2023-10-24T23:12:31Z")
That’s a cool pic, has the bugger got bands around its legs? Are they accustomed to human contact like that? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/14 "2023-10-24T23:12:33Z")
Next Sunday. And – FWIW – I’m formally “against it.” But that’ll change. It always does. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/15 "2023-10-24T23:18:26Z")
Yeah they just fly out of the trees and land on your head or hand and they love being fed. They are like that everywhere in Canada when I’ve encountered them. Interestingly, the Steller’s Jays were hanging out with them but refused to land on us or even take anything from our hands. Here’s a picture from a totally different area a couple of years ago: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50540368658_4cff335618_b.jpg "Whiskey Jacks") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/50540368658/in/dateposted-public/) Yes they banded and studied: > **[Whiskey Jacks in Strathcona Park](http://caylastravels.blogspot.com/2017/06/whiskey-jacks-in-strathcona-park.html)** > > Before I left for the Rocky Mountains, I had the pleasure of helping Dan Strickland study Gray Jays (aka Whiskey Jacks) in Strathcona Park... ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/16 "2023-10-24T23:21:22Z")
That’s cool. I forget what this thread is about. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/17 "2023-10-24T23:22:54Z")
Just caught the local weather report. Snow continuing through tonight and tomorrow, tomorrow’s high will be -9C (16F). Snow should end by Thursday. Gradual warming for the rest of the week; should be on the high side of freezing by Sunday. One day of winter so far, and already I’m tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/18 "2023-10-24T23:40:01Z")
> [@FluffyBob](#): > > Calgary was nuts last night and this morning. I stayed at work until 8 hoping the traffic would settle. I was having coffee with a friend this morning and commented that Saskatchewan drivers are some of the best winter drivers in the world. In March. Then the endless golden summer, and they forget about it all and then in Octobre it’s « Whoa! What do we do with all this slippery white stuff again? ». Followed by a crashing sound. I am so prepared! I actually have my snows on already. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/19 "2023-10-24T23:49:43Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I am so prepared! I actually have my snows on already. I have to think that’s a lot of it. People don’t want to swap tires before it’s 100% absolutely necessary. Which practically speaking means driving the first 3 or 4 days of snow on summer tires. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031/20 "2023-10-25T20:56:17Z")
Had our first snow back mid September. But it’s been a beautiful couple of weeks thank god. Our new septic system has been installed. Would have been a lot harder if we where ass deep in snow. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-year/992031.md?page=2)