The Highest Snowfall Totals Ever Recorded in Evansville Indiana

When Does Evansville Usually See Its First Snowfall?

It’s hard to believe that winter is right around the corner. In fact, yesterday was the autumnal equinox, the first official day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. And the winter solstice isn’t far behind, occurring on December 21 this year.

Days are quickly getting shorter, and though we just experienced a lovely heat wave and drought here in Southern Indiana, a cold front is pushing storms through this week, bringing temperatures in the 60s and 70s with it.

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Fall Festival Weather Memories

With the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival coming up, I remembered that we are probably due for another heat wave. It has heated up for the past few years during the first weekend in October. We all had a good laugh when the CEO of our company, who lives in the northeast, showed up one year in a sweater. Of course, we made him go down to Fall Festival and try weird food, and he almost died of heat exhaustion.

In fact, I can only remember it being cold on Fall Festival weekend once since I’ve lived here. The chicken and dumplins really hit that weekend.

Evansville’s First October Snows

All this talk of temperature swings got me thinking about snow and when Evansville has historically seen the first snow of the season…

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