When will the USA get its first snowstorm? You could argue it's already happened, with Minneapolis' white Halloween this year, as 0.2 inches of snow fell on the holiday, the weather service reported.

Snow squalls are brief but intense, with heavy snow, gusty winds, and near-zero visibility. More common in late winter and early spring, they can happen when temperatures and air masses mix suddenly.

The winter storm watch for the northern part of the U.P. has been upgraded to a winter storm warning. That’s no surprise since the cold air and heavy lake-effect snow will start there first tonight.

The earliest snowfall in the Twin Cities was Sept. 24, 1985 — coming in a fourth-tenths of an inch. The latest first snowfall was on Dec. 3, 1928.

La Niña had a hand in the extremely wet winter much of the state endured from December 2022 to February 2023 and during the wet winter before that. Southern California is expected to be drier and ...

Snow also was reported in the Midwest Thursday, with Milwaukee and Indianapolis both picking up their first flakes of the winter season. But don't read too much into the November snow.

A car is abandoned in Lackawanna, New York after a lake-effect snowstorm dumped as much as 65 inches of snow over a 24-hour period in January 2024.