Snow can happen as early as October and as late as April. We've had a very mild winter so far. Some of the coldest days i've experienced in 34 years of living here have been in February. I wasn't alive for the blizzard of 78 but I specifically remember growing up with the blizzard of 96 and having to crawl through windows in my house at the time because there was too much snow outside to reach a storage room from the outside.