Environment

50 First Dates of Snow

This NOAA map comes with a friendly reminder: It’s time to start dreading snow!
NOAA

It’s 4:30 p.m., painfully dark outside, and it’s going to take some doing to get the chocolate grease off my laptop. Only thing missing from this winter-is-coming misery is some thin, wet snow dropping outside.

Of course, that’s around the corner, as the earnest folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration remind us. They’ve mapped the first dates of snowfall for all 50 states.