Snow, eh?
I’m going to go out on a limb here. I’m going to state (without any backup) that this is the latest “first snow” the central Connecticut valley has had in my lifetime. Sure, there was the little squall back in November, but it didn’t stick. And I don’t care what happened in the Northwest hills.
This is, on the eighteenth day of January, the first snow that managed to stick to anything for more than an hour or two. I fully expect to wake up with snow still on the ground tomorrow.
And that’s what constitutes “snow” for me - it’s still here when I wake up.
Nearly a full month after the Winter Solstice (which marks the ‘official’ beginning of winter), and two months after Thanksgiving (the unofficial beginning) we finally get snow. Granted, it’s less than an inch, but it’s still snow.