First Snowfall of Fall Season in Tri-State Area...

The season's first snowfall in parts of the Tri-State New York area came early this year. Last year in October 2008, a storm produced heavy snow in northern New Jersey upstate New York and interior Connecticut a few days before Halloween. Another coastal storm is expected to follow the same track producing more wet snow across the interior Saturday night and early Sunday. Once again wind gusts are expected to reach more than 40 mph. Snowfall reports for October 15, 2009 from the National Weather Service:

Morris County, NJ:
Green Pond: 1.0 inch
Marcell: 1.0 inch

Sussex County, NJ:
Sparta: 1.0 inch
High Point State Park: 0.5 inch

Warren County:
Allamuchy: 2.0 inches
Blairstown: 1.8 inches

Carbon County, PA:
Lake Harmony: 3.0 inches

Monroe County, PA:
Tobyhanna: 4.3 inches
Stroudsburg: 1.0 inch

George Wright is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President of Wright Weather Consulting, Inc. Visit our website at WrightWeather.com.