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Below Normal Cold and First Substantial Snow Arrives in the Rockies and Northern Plains

A frigid weather system out of Canada blew into the United States throughout the week, delivering below normal seasonal temperatures and heavy snow across a large swath of the...

Halloween Arctic Blast Plummets Temperatures Near Freezing for Much of the Nation

According to the National Weather Service national forecast discussion: A potent autumn cold front is set to complete its trek across the CONUS by midweek as it pushes through the...

Yellowstone National Park Gets a Foot of New Snow

A recent early winter storm that passed through the Pacific Northwest and Northern plains has left its mark in the form of the first significant snow of the fall....

Pre-Winter Cold Front Delivers Below Freezing Temperatures and Snow to Alberta

An arctic front is delivering an early taste of winter to western Canada, with cities across Alberta experiencing below freezing temperatures and accumulating snow, reports The Weather Network. “It's time...

First Significant Snow of Fall Hits Northwest and Northern Plains

Image: Computer model forecast showing expected snowfall accumulations in the area. Source. NOAA. The first significant snowfall of the season is in progress across a large swath of the northwestern...

Light Snow Teases First Taste of Winter For Vermont

Powder.com is reporting that Vermont’s “snowiest ski resort,” Jay Peak, has received its first snow of the 2023/2024 ski season. “The changing leaves are past peak in most areas of...

Northern India Gets Early Unprecedented Snow

Large areas of northern India have seen unusually cold temperatures and been battered with repeated rounds of snow in October, with the snow fall in some areas unprecedented in...

China Experiences Early Fall Record Breaking Cold

Electroverse writes: Exceptional chills have gripped much of China of late, most notably in Qinghai Province of the Tibetan Plateau. Hala Lake took the ‘cold cherry’ over the weekend. The brackish lake, located in China’s Qilian mountains,...

Florida Gets Coolest Temperatures Since March

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Miami posted some cool news this week on their Twitter feed October 16th: A welcome change for weather across South Florida, with a cold...

Cold Front Dumps First Snow of the Season on Mountains in Washington and Oregon

Image: Mt. Bachelor Ski resort webcam On October 11, various news outlets reported that a cold front was delivering early for the season snow to the mountains of Washington state,...

North Carolina Expecting Early Snow

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists were predicting an early preview of winter with the arrival of the first snow of the season on October 15 in North Carolina, reports...

Iceland Seeing Freezing Temperatures and Snow

Winter has come early to Iceland. Reports from Snow-Forecast show that most of Iceland had experienced sustained below freezing temperatures for most of the seven days preceding October 10, with...

Freezing Temperatures Forecast for the Sierra Nevada, Reno Areas

Months before Winter officially arrives, a winter-like storm is moved into California and Nevada earlier this week. Following Tuesday’s cold front passage, a strong and cold Pacific high pressure dome...

Spring In Antarctica Setting Cold Temperature Records

An examination of various research stations across the Antarctic continent shows that several of them are recording anomalously low temperatures for the season, extremely low for the spring. “Stations such...

Cold Front to Affect 134 Million with Below Average Temperatures in U.S. Today

Image above: Temperature departures for the next few days. (FOX Weather) FoxWeather reports that the first big cold front sweeping the nation this fall will result in 134 million people...

Freezing Temperatures, Frost, Invade Minnesota, Ohio

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Duluth, Minnesota reports on a cold air mass invading the northern part of the state Monday night. Saying, "Tonight will again be cool...

Powerful Storm Delivers Freezing Temperatures and Heavy Snow to Parts of Wyoming

A powerful storm delivered freezing temperatures to south eastern Wyoming and the first heavy snowfalls of the season to the Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Grand Targhee,...

Polar Vortex Brings the Chill to Canada

Canada was hit with a polar vortex induced cool down late the first week of October, the Weather Network reports. “With cold air intensifying a disturbance over Eastern Canada, it’ll...

First Snow of the Season Dusts the Top of the Sierra Nevada

  Image: National Weather Service, Reno The first snow of fall/winter 2023 fell on the mountaintops of the Sierra Nevada this past weekend. Reports from both the National Weather Service (NWS)...

Russia Skipping Fall, Heading Straight to Winter

Meteonovosti.ru is reporting that below freezing temperatures had become common across large parts of Russia by September 30. “The area with temperatures below zero is increasing every day,” writes Meteonovosti.ru....

Freeze Watch Issued for Parts of Colorado as Cold Front Approaches

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Grand Junction, Colorado has issued a freeze watch ahead of an approaching cold front that is expected to dramatically drop temperatures by Tuesday...

Mount Rainier Gets Early Snow, Below Freezing Temperatures Expected for the Week

Image: U.S. National Park Service, Wednesday, September 20. “Early snowfall at Mount Rainier hints at upcoming winter wonderland in western Washington,” read the headline of a KOMO News story...

Utah’s Snowbasin Ski Resort Celebrates Late Summer Gift of Early Snow

Snowbasin Resort in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains posted a video, reposted at Unofficial Networks, celebrating the first snowfall there, delivered days before the official beginning of fall. Commenting on Snowbasin’s snowfall,...

First Snowfall of the Season Confirmed on Mount Bachelor

Image: screenshot of video taken by the Mt. Bachelor Ski Patrol. Mount Bachelor, near Bend, Oregon, has recorded its first snowfall of the season. A September 23 report on Instagram...

Kashmir, India, Records Abrupt Drop in Temperature, First Snowfall

Image credit: Navya Sharma for India Today A September 25 article in India Today, reported on a cold front which significantly reduced temperatures in Kashmir and delivered the first snowfall...