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Post by smiteedawgwv on Oct 27, 2008 21:32:22 GMT -5
It's October 27th and it's snowing!!! Can't be a good sign for this winter!!!!!!!
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Post by rainman on Oct 28, 2008 6:01:27 GMT -5
I seen a few flurries yesterday when I took Kat to soccer practice
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Post by wvumaryjane on Oct 28, 2008 7:41:12 GMT -5
It even got down to 38 degrees here last night.. Brrrrrr...
I had to bring my plants in..
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Post by elp525 on Oct 29, 2008 18:33:16 GMT -5
It was 40 this morning here. Brrrr! lol I can't ever rememeber it snowing in WV in October before; March and even April one year, but not October. Does anyone remember it snowing this early before?
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Post by WVUfanPHILLY on Oct 29, 2008 19:23:58 GMT -5
In your higher elevations, yes! The old farm was pretty high up for that area, and I can remember it snowing one Halloween.
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Post by rainman on Oct 29, 2008 19:26:57 GMT -5
October 26, 2005
October Snow
I don't know about you but I've really enjoyed this month (from the comfy warmth of my office in Atlanta!). Yes, I don't wish any harm on anyone suffering on account of capricious weather, but as a true weather enthusiast, I can't help but marvel how interesting the weather has been. And now there's been an early-season snowstorm in the Northeast. Not the storm of the century (there seem to be too many of these lately!) but another one for the early-season record books.
Many locations in West Virginia, Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, western Maryland, interior Pennsylvania, New York and New England saw an early start to their winter season. The first significant cold outbreak combined with the first significant nor'easter to bring wet, sloppy snow to mostly high elevation locations (maybe there were snowflakes on top of the Empire State Building?).
Lets start with Mount Washington. They now have had 6 feet of snow in the past 12 days, including 2 new record 24-hour snowfall records (the latest is 25.7 inches). Parts of West Virginia saw their heaviest early-season snow, including 3 inches at Clarksburg and 6 inches in Morgantown.
Snowfall was extremely variable with the heaviest snows falling at higher elevations but a few places did see a foot of snow or more, including northern New England, southwestern Pennsylvania and the highest hilltops in West Virginia.
Pre-Halloween snows are a rarity in the Northeast but they have occurred before. One of the earliest events on record occurred with a coastal storm on October 3-4, 1987, when close to 2 feet of snow fell in portions of the Catskills and Vermont’s Green Mountains. Residents of Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston saw one of their earliest snowfalls on October 10-11, 1979 when a small low pressure system and just enough cold air blanketed parts of the major metropolitan areas with a trace to a couple inches of snow.
While another coastal low tries to spin up later this week off the Carolinas, it looks like October should end quietly but what a start to the winter season it’s been!
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