On Thursday 10/4, we received our first snow of the year. I woke up that morning around 8:30am to see about 2.5" of very slushy snow on the ground, with snow still falling. The official snowfall for the day was 3.5" at the University. This smashed my previous personal mark of earliest snowfall (Trace - 11/9) by 35 days, and earliest measurable snowfall (1.1" - 11/15) by 41 days, both set last year here in Grand Forks. It is worth noting that this was even early for Grand Forks standards. The all-time record for earliest 1" of snowfall in Grand Forks was 10/02/1950, so this ranks as one of the earliest ever.
We have not had any snow since, but the pattern has been active until the past few days. Through the first 10 days of the month, precipitation was recorded during 6 of those days. A bit of a dry stretch has moved in for the past few days and temperatures have trended back to normal. For today and tomorrow, we have a decent chance of topping out near 65° - which may be the last time until late March or April, or if we are really unlucky, May.
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