The first snowflakes of the season landed on the slopes of Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Somerset County Monday morning.

A thin layer of ice lined the tree branches across the 285-acre property, according to photos from the resort. Blades of grass poked through the light dusting of snow coating the slopes.

The natural snow and cold temperatures are welcome help in preparing the resort for the 2025-26 season, said spokesperson Anna Weltz, though she noted they are unlikely to stick around. Temperatures are forecast to reach the high 40s and 50s later this week, according to the National Weather Service.

Though Pittsburghers may have been surprised by Monday’s flurries, the snowfall is right on time, said Andrew Kienzle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Pittsburgh office in Moon.

The Pittsburgh area, on average, receives its first measurable snowfall — at least a tenth of an inch — on Nov. 14. The earliest snowfall, Oct. 18, was recorded in 1992. The latest, Dec. 18, was recorded in 2015, Kienzle said.

“We’re right in that area climatologically that you would expect,” he said, “or right around average.”

Despite the light dusting on Pittsburghers’ front lawns and cars in the morning, Monday’s snowfall did not accumulate much through early afternoon, Kienzle said.

“Temperatures today are just a little too warm right now for any of these light snow showers to put down much of anything,” he said.

But as temperatures are expected to dip below freezing around 7 p.m. and snow showers continue to move into the region, Kienzle predicts Southwestern Pennsylvania could see between a half an inch and an inch of snow this evening.

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