There haven't been many November snowstorms in this area. In fact, I could only find three Novembers in which five inches or more of snow fell in the entire month, and those records go back to 1884.

Predictably, when snow accumulates in November, it tends to come at the end of the month, when temperatures are likely to be lower. In fact, our two snowiest Novembers had big storms that ended on this date, November 27. One of those was in 1898, when more than 13 inches of snow fell. The other was November 1938, when a foot of snow fell over a four-day period, starting on Thanksgiving Day.

In general, the snowiness of November isn't a bellweather for how snowy the rest of the winter will be. But an interesting sidenote is that the winter months following November 1898 turned out to be the second snowiest on record here.