Yuck!! Fortunately we’re just supposed to get a dusting at most. Surely yours will melt down - way too early for snow cover to start!

Wow, that’s a lot of early-Fall snow! My DD sent me a video clip yesterday of the view out her office window in Colorado Springs and it was snowing there, too. I was very ready for Fall this year, but NOT for snow this early!

So I guess I shouldn't mention that in Florida it's still in the 80s. :)

Donna

I believe they've started to get snow in the Denver area, where I have family. We've had a lot of rain over the past few hours, and the pre-dawn lightning show on my commute into the office this morning was both mesmerizing and terrifying. We're going to be down in the 40s here, which is a big change from the highs in the 90s yesterday, but it always happens this way. And the weather reporters always act like there's something totally shocking going on, for which we're not prepared. Um, no. It's called Autumn, and it's about flippin' time it arrived to our part of the country!

That snow looks very pretty, particularly with the cozy glow of light coming from inside the house. Stay warm!

Last night I talked to DS2 who lives in Denver and he was rather blasé about the whole thing. Youth! And obviously he's not a gardener!

daisychain your neighbors may be better off not shaking the snow off at this point, especially if you have a warm up coming. If they haven't broken under the weight at this point, sometimes the shaking will do that because the branches are stiff but if the snow melts on it's own the branches regain their flexibility as they warm up and will spring back. It's pretty, but I don't envy you - too early!

We had our first snowfall the 28th of September. Not much stuck but still.

Then Wednesday morning we woke up to this:

And this:

We live in eastern WA state, not in the mountains but we are at 2200 feet. We've also had snow before or on Halloween but in the almost 40 years I've lived here I don't remember having measurable snow this early.

And there's still some on the ground.

Come on, weather gods. It's still early FALL!

No snow for us but we have set record overnight lows the last 3 days and on Tuesday we broke a 60-year old record.. It's supposed to get cloudy this weekend so then we'll warm up. It's way too early to be cold.

These are the last 3 days of the annual Albuquerque International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, and I heard on the news this morning that it was down to 30-degrees there this morning at 7AM. But, thankfully, no snow to ruin it!

Yes, DLM, I was worried when I started shaking my trees this morning that they would snap, but the temp is actually just hovering around the freezing mark, so they seem okay.

msmeow, I was checking my airmiles points the other day to see if I had enough for a long weekend in Florida or Palm Springs in Feb. as it looks like it's going to be a long winter.

Ida, it does look serene, but the wind is howling like crazy.

It sounds like we're not the only ones with unseasonable weather. I can't really complain as we had a very hot dry summer, but I do wish I had got my garden to bed before this hit. We've had pretty much constant rain for the last 4 weeks. Much needed but just wish it was spread out a bit more.

My DD and I actually have an extra day off school today for the long weekend, so we are having a cozy lie in and staying warm inside.

We have become a desert. No rain at our house for over a month. I am watering all day every day. :-(

97 here yesterday, 44 today.

Oh cyn, wish I could send you some. We were watering our foundation to keep it from cracking it was so dry, but now the wet just keeps coming. This system is stalled over us and the trees and shrubs I freed from their snowy weights this morning are bent double again. Lights are flickering but still on.

Too soon! We are about to get the cold front tomorrow. What happened to Fall?!

Daisy, I do hope you keep your power. Damaged trees is one thing, but to end up without power during a snowstorm would really be no fun. I hope it warms up enough that you don't have to worry about more snow!

I’m not too far from cyn427 in suburban MD. We haven’t had any significant rain. Last year b/w mid-August and mid-October, we had 10” of rain. The same period this year in the DC area had .04”. I think that .04” bypassed us! I planted a number of shrubs/hydrangeas in the spring and have been doing my best trying to keep them watered and alive. The Farmers Almanac is predicting unseasonably cold winter with higher than normal precipitation for us. We shall see if that’s correct!

Wow! We are still in the upper 70's/lower 80's here in coastal southern California although the forecast shows highs in the low 70's next week. Who knows if that's what will happen or not.

Just returned to So California from Quebec City. Miss the cooler weather. Although I am not up for snow. Yesterday it was 87 at our home, 20 miles from the coast. Wish that we had a proper fall here but we are in what we call “fire season”.

I can't wrap my head around a snow storm in mid October. And I grew up in Ohio. We have 83 today, and still dry as a bone. Might get some rain on Wednesday. It's been beautiful in central NC.

We’ve had temps in the 90s all of September and October until yesterday. Crazy indeed,