This Is Considered the Worst October Snowstorm in Kentucky History

Don't take this story to mean that I'm ready to move this game along and get to winter. I am not. I may be a bigger fan of autumn than anyone I know, so Old Man Winter needs to load up on Netflix and Hulu shows and not worry about things for a while.

And, as a lover of fall, I think I've been pretty patient while waiting for all that summer-like weather to run its course. Now that it has, and we're enjoying real fall weather, I want it to hang around for a while.

The Largest October Snowstorm in Kentucky History

Based on what I've learned, we should be fine in that respect. But don't think we haven't had to deal with a lot of the white stuff in Octobers past. We have, and in 1993, it's believed Kentucky suffered what's considered the biggest snow event this month has ever had to offer when a massive snowstorm rolled through southern Ohio, dumping 6.2 inches of the white stuff onto the Cincinnati metro, which includes a large section of northern Kentuckyk. The storm rolled in on Saturday, October 30th; by Halloween morning, there was still 4 inches of snow on the ground.

Halloween Snow

There was a pretty distinct line between who got dumped on and who escaped largely untouched—eighty miles down the road from Covington, Lexington only picked up a half-inch of snow. I doubt that was a welcome sight in mid-autumn, but at least Lexingtonians didn't have to scramble around to find the kind of gear that's usually more necessary a few months later.

In Owensboro, kids were building snowmen, which would make for great Halloween decorations. Of course, nobody wants that to happen, but snowmen are creepy, and it would totally work.

By the way, be thankful this isn't central Colorado.

Had to throw that in.