October Snow

While snow in October isn't completely rare in these parts, it's always "cool" when the first arctic airmass plunges out of Canada this early.

We got our first flakes of the season on Wednesday October 29th with generally a coating around State College. Areas to our east got crushed with as much as 17" in the higher elevations. Areas to our west got in on the lake effect with over 6" in Somerset, Elk, and Warren counties.

While we only had about one-half inch of snow, it was our first accumulation. A powerful nor-easter affected New York and eastern Pennsylvania the previous day. We were just little too far west to get in on the best action. Here's a look at a traffic cam south of Wilkes-Barre, PA on Tuesday morning where just about 6" of snow fell.