When Spring's Last Snow Typically Happens

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We scoured National Weather Service records to compile both the average date of the final measurable snow (at least 0.1 inches) of the spring, and also the date of the latest spring accumulating snow on record. In some locations, that record-latest date was in the summer.

The map above indicates the average month each location can usually put away the shovel or snowblower for the season.

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Areas across the northern Plains into the upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes typically experience the last snowfall of the season in April, while areas farther south usually say goodbye to additional snowfall in March.

Farther west, many locations wait until May or later to see the last snowfall of the season. One location not listed in the table below, Mount Rainier, Washington, sees the average last snowfall on July 13.

Alaska is not shown on the map at the top. Dates for average last snowfall there range from March 31 in Juneau to June 21 in Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow).

Footnotes:

• We only plotted cities and locations whose average last measurable snow of the season occurs in March or later. As a result, our nation's capital was among cities not plotted (average date of last snow of the season is Feb. 24).
• Since accumulating graupel or hail is also officially classified as snow in daily and monthly climate reports, we made every effort to quality check each "latest snow" record, removing those dates when temperatures were clearly too warm for snow, on which hail likely fell instead.