First snow · New York
When is the first snow in Rochester?
Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Rochester forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 39°F in Rochester right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Rochester’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 8.
Rochester gets over a hundred inches a winter and still acts personally betrayed by the first inch.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for RochesterFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Rochester is number 23 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Akron, Ohio: around November 8
- Buffalo, New York: around November 8
- Syracuse, New York: around November 8
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 27 and November 22. A typical Rochester winter adds up to about 102 inches of snow.
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How much snow Rochester gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Rochester 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.