What Are the Chances of Your City Getting Snow on Halloween?

So many Halloween costumes are improved by a proper, snowy setting. Krampus. Wampa. Er, sexy snowman. But what are the chances your hometown will actually see powder on October 31?

Brian Brettschneider, a climatologist in Anchorage, has the answer: very slim. “Halloween is the least snowy winter holiday,” he says. In fact, of all the major U.S. weather stations with a decent amount of records, he says only two (outside Alaska) have at least a 50 percent likelihood of experiencing a “White Halloween”: Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and Stampede Pass, Washington. (Both are places not known for human habitation, let alone trick-or-treating.)