Wednesday is the first noticeable snow

The first measurable snow of the 2022-2023 season fell in Chicago on Wednesday.

• This year we were only slightly ahead of the average first measurement date (0.1 inch or more) of November 18 (records date back to 1884).
• In only 25 years, only 18% of them had 1 inch of snow by November 15th
• Over the past 50 years (since 1972), the average first snowfall of 1 inch fell on December 5th, and the first snowfall of 3 inches or more fell on December 25th