Ah, that first snowfall. Here’s when winter weather usually lands in your area.

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Winter is fast approaching, with a potential nor'easter bringing snow to some parts of New England starting Thursday. But could an historic El Niño make some areas wait a little longer for snow?

What a month November has been, and we’re only a third of the way through. Each New England state has seen a top 3 warmest start to the month, and now we’re flipping the pattern and tracking the first snowmaker of the season for portions of Western Massachusetts and Northern New England.

Now, we’ve definitely felt a handful of cold mornings across all of New England this fall, and certainly there have been a few isolated snow showers across some of the higher elevations.

But this late-week coastal storm headed for New England is the first storm that should bring some measurable snowfall to portions of the Berkshires, Vermont, and spreading into New Hampshire and Maine. So is this snow’s arrival right on time for the season? When does New England typically gets its first taste of accumulating snow?

Well, it obviously depends on where you live. Naturally, earlier in the season, you’ll see snow the farther inland and north you go.

Meteorologically speaking, measurable snowfall is defined as at least one-tenth of an inch. That means a few floating flakes floating about and melting on contact doesn’t count.

Boston usually sees its first dusting of snow around Nov. 28, and Rhode Island, a couple of days later. Check out the date for key New England areas near you:

Once again, it’s really no surprise that the northern tier of the region is first in line for winter’s arrival.

Extreme northern Maine usually sees the first measurable snowfall by late October — think Caribou and Presque Isle. Then, during the first half of November, that’s when we see the snow trend south through Burlington, Berlin, and Bangor. And then later in the month, as we head farther south. Cape Cod usually waits until early December.

As our air temperatures turn colder during late fall, our ocean takes much longer to release heat than the atmosphere, and this leaves the coast as the latest to see any snowfall, especially around the Southern New England coast.

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