First Snow in Missouri

I missed our first snow at our Missouri home (we moved there in June) last week since I was in Carrollton TX. My husband sent pictures, so I enjoyed the event vicariously! We were a little surprised that snow happened so early in the season.

I am consciously noting the differences between the seasons in Missouri and Maryland during our first year living in Missouri. The summer here was much drier in Missouri than I ever experienced in Maryland – at least this past summer. And then the fall in Missouri happened very abruptly in October with two nights of temperatures in the low twenties. Some leaves didn’t turn before they fell off the trees! It was very different than the falls in Maryland that happened more gradually….or maybe this was just a different fall for Missouri too. In recent years, we didn’t get snow in Maryland until December although in the 1980s there were some notable snows (the one I remember the most was in 1989 at Thanksgiving…my daughter’s first snow).