Latest and earliest snows

We're done with snow for the season (most likely), but it got me thinking about the most unseasonable snows I've seen. I love unseasonable snow.

In 1995, I remember spending a summer vacation day in early June playing cards (probably Crazy 8s) with my mom and siblings while we were amazed that it was snowing in June. It stuck to the grass, but it didn't last long. My memory tells me that it was the first day of summer vacation, but the internet tells me it was Tuesday, June 6, which probably was the second day of summer.

In 2000, my eleven-year-old scout troop went early in the morning to the Bountiful "Bubble" to practice saving yourself from drowning. I believe it was September 23. We all wore long-sleeve shirts (because apparently that's what you wear near water) to do the training for the merit badge. Afterwards in the locker room, an old guy was talking to me. I didn't understand what he was saying, so I just smiled, but our leader, Austin Anderson, answered his question (I think about why we were there). The old man was saying he could warm his hands on Ryan Jones's red hair. We went out to the lobby (we might have gone to the skating rink and/or gotten food), and I looked outside and saw that it was snowing. I got really excited: "Hey guys! It's snowing outside!" Jaydon Bean said it was probably just raining. But then when everyone looked outside, they saw that it really was snowing. Then I went home. I believe my mom was in Iowa at the time, but she had left hidden toys and things in the house. The Olympics were on; David and his friends watched them, and they were saying that they thought the abbreviation for Brazil ("BRA") was simply an identification of the apparel for the women's beach volleyball, and they thought the Brazilian flag was a logo. That night the news did a story about the early snowstorm; one interviewee from New York said, "We get big snow storms in New York, but we don't get snow this early." However, I didn't actually see any snow on the ground; just falling from the sky.

The earliest I've seen snow on the ground was my birthday, September 29, 2007. You can read about that here.