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Average date of Chicago’s first autumn snow: In official Chicago snow records dating from 1885, Oct. 30 is the average date of the city’s first snow in the autumn (either measurable snow or just a few snowflakes in the air).
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Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.
WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.
