First snow · Wisconsin
When is the first snow in Madison?
Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Madison forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 35°F in Madison right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Madison’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 11.
Madison’s first snow lands between two frozen lakes and somehow still finds a way to be surprised.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for MadisonFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Madison is number 30 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Des Moines, Iowa: around November 11
- Cleveland, Ohio: around November 10
- Dubuque, Iowa: around November 12
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 23 and December 6. A typical Madison winter adds up to about 51 inches of snow.
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How much snow Madison gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Madison area, winters 1991 to 2020 (29 with complete records), via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.