Video shows the first flakes of snow have fallen in Michigan this past Thursday, September 4. Let’s look at past weather records to see if this is the earliest snow ever on record for Michigan.

Fletchy’s Otter Belly Lodge in Eagle Harbor in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula recorded the first flakes of snow Thursday, September 4, 2025.

Yes, Michigan is a cold state and we get a lot of snow, but snow on September 4 is very early.

Eagle Harbor is at one of the northernmost parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, on the shore of Lake Superior.

Is this the earliest snow Michigan has seen? Eagle Harbor doesn’t have an official climate site with a lot of history reporting snow. I had to go to Hancock, Michigan, about 35 miles south of Eagle Harbor to look at the closest long history of snow report

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