Snow? In October?! What the hell?!

[Joelene9]

  We had our snow in Denver last Wednesday.  Still some on the ground.  We had snow in 1961 on Labor Day!  My aunts were calling grandma all that morning on "what to do?".  We were planning on a picnic in the mountains.  September first snows not uncommon here, one year it happened on a "Monday Night Football" broadcast at the old Mile Hi Stadium.  The ski resorts got a lot of reservations the next day!  Last year it was Mid-November.  First snows of the season date varies over 3 months in the fall here.  In drought years we get none.
  Joelene

[amanda barber]

I moved from New Hampshire to eastern WA to get away from the bad winters. 
snow in october was common there, pretty rare here.

[Dane]

I lost power for 7 days because of this premature snow storm. But I did get 6 days off of school.

[tekla]

It got down to 32 in the outlaying valleys last few nights, but it has to be clear for that, anything off the ocean would be in the 40 degree range, and at that point warm everything up.  (Or above 40 cool everything down)  The ocean really helps regulate the weather.