First snow · Ohio
When is the first snow in Columbus?
Columbus right now
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- Today43°F / 41°FClouds
- Tomorrow46°F / 40°FClouds
- Monday47°F / 38°FClouds
Fifty shades of gray. Boring ones.
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Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Columbus forecast for the next 5 days.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Columbus’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 21.
Columbus’s first snow is a dusting that the whole city discusses like it was a whole winter.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for ColumbusFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Columbus is number 48 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Boise, Idaho: around November 20
- Concord, New Hampshire: around November 20
- Detroit, Michigan: around November 20
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between November 4 and December 17. A typical Columbus winter adds up to about 28 inches of snow.
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How much snow Columbus gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Columbus area, winters 1991 to 2020 (30 with complete records), via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.