The Largest Halloween Snowstorm in KY History

As we look ahead to Halloween, we're looking ahead to the distinct possibility of warmer-than-normal temperatures for the spookiest day of the year. It seems a comfortable trick-or-treating experience is in the cards.

That, however, was not the case in parts of the Commonwealth 31 years ago during what became known as "White Halloween." It was in 1993 when a massive snowstorm rolled through southern Ohio and did NOT leaving northern Kentucky unscathed, dumping 6.2 inches of the white stuff onto the Cincinnati metro. That happened on Saturday, October 30th; by Halloween morning, there was still 4 inches of snow on the ground.

Nothing like a Halloween snowball fight, right?

A high school football game in Covington KY was dramatically affected, as were multiple kids' soccer matches in the area, according to WCPO-Cincinnati. But the kids didn't seem to care, naturally.

But 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.

Over here in western Kentucky, I remember a couple of Halloweens during which it snowed, but nothing like what folks in the northern part of the state received in 1993. We've had far more colder-than-average Halloweens than we've had snow. Frankly, on October 31st, I'll gladly take neither.