Same system that brought 3 ft of snow and 60 mph winds to Montana, I presume?

We went to 4 wheel drive this year with a new Subaru CrossTrek plug-in hybrid. They say with 4WD you can get by even in our hilly environs without snow tires, but out of an abundance of caution I'm going in later in October for snows for it. I feel in my bones it will be a long winter this year in upstate NY. Hope I am wrong, but ready if I'm not.

no mention of snow here on van isle. golfed today in shirtsleeves. still will be glad to be heading south in a few weeks.

Maybe an early ski season in the cascades?

It looks a little blurry, but it's still a magnificent landscape. I live in Michigan, and the snow will soon be falling here as well.

This looks like an impressionist painting. Great.

I'm in Missouri but this means I have to hurry and finish painting my back porch.

Well, we are now in spring. On Thursday it is going to be 27C, far too hot for spring. Global warming is at full swing.

We sometimes have rain, but what's snow?

We have had snow a few hundred miles norh of us but not much over the last few weeks 18C here today

Snowed on Mt Hood too!

Fall has come early here but I think even earlier on your side of the Cascade Curtain.

Get your snowshoes ready! At least you are not getting slammed like Montana.

Totally gross !

That's a lot of the reason we don't live in WA anymore. I'm not sure it 'rained' by AZ standards the who!e 10 years we were up there -- but it was gray and drizzled almost every day.

The people and lifestyle were great but we got very tired of it being fall all year round. It's nice to have four seasons again. Ha, ha.

Here in Butte, we’ve only had a few inches fall, but it’s supposed to keep snowing through tomorrow.

The view from my front door -

I love the cold and snow of winter. it's just awesome, plus i love driving my jeep around in it. but in spokane, people can't drive, so you ahve to watch out for the other guy alot.

It's starting early

Ah, Montana got three feet of snow this weekend. [krtv.com]

Last year we had full on snow starting on September 13. It's been cold but not much in the way of snow here now except some spitting sleet or ice crystals now and again. A bit south and west of here has been getting quite a bit of snow I believe.