First snow · Pennsylvania
When is the first snow in Scranton?
Scranton right now
37°FOvercast skies
- Today39°F / 38°FRain
- Tomorrow42°F / 37°FRain
- Monday44°F / 35°FClouds
The sky is buffering.
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Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Scranton 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.
Scranton’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 12.
Scranton’s first snow turns every hill into a negotiation, and Scranton has a lot of hills.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for ScrantonFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Scranton is number 34 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Dubuque, Iowa: around November 12
- Grand Junction, Colorado: around November 12
- Green Bay, Wisconsin: around November 12
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 29 and November 26. A typical Scranton winter adds up to about 46 inches of snow.
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How much snow Scranton gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton area, winters 1991 to 2020 (19 with complete records), via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.