Published: October 6th, 2008 10:04 AM
Last Modified: October 6th, 2008 02:28 PM
Put away the lawn chairs - winter's coming early this year.
Two to 6 inches of snow will accumulate over the next two days, according to the National Weather Service. And it's arriving more than 10 days earlier than the average first snowfall date --- Oct. 17.
Snow totals will be greater at high elevations.
Along with early snow, it's cold. Temperatures have been a few degrees lower than usual.
"Pretty much all of (the lows) are below normal," said Sam Shea, a Weather Service meteorologist.
As much as an inch of snow is expected to fall overnight, and the rest will fall tomorrow, Shea said.
Snow should taper off on Wednesday and could be gone by the weekend, when temperatures are expected to rise back into the low 40s.
The earliest first snowfall on record was on Sept. 20 in 1947. 1950 and 1944 tied for the latest date of first snowfall, Nov. 11.
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