The calendar says fall, but the first day of winter has arrived in the northern valley at Grand Forks.
The day started out rotten and just got worse with wind gusts touching 40-miles per hour and wet, heavy snow that quickly made driving conditions very tricky.
Out on Highway 2 east of town, the morning drive to work was one lane at 30-miles per hour. Near Fisher, traffic was backed up for over a mile in the east bound lane, after a vehicle spun out and blocked traffic.
On I-29 at Grand Forks, traffic was moving at around 40-miles per hour. But, it's not the kind of weather Texas drivers like.
Jason Blakeley, Texas: "The weather probably scares us a little more than people from here."
Reporter: "See any cars in the ditch?"
Blakeley: "Three or 4 actually. We went around 40-miles per hour all the way from Fargo."
Mike Lawrence, Grand Forks: "I just had to get some fuel oil."
Reporter: "Staying home today?"
Lawrence: "Yeah, pretty much. But, I just got a call someone's locked out of their car. So, I gotta go do that. I work on cars."
This is not normal weather according to the National Weather Service.
Mark Ewens, National Weather Service: "If you want to play the statistics game, there's about a 5-percent likely hood in the historical record that you see snow like this within the first week of October."
By this afternoon, the snow had moved through and most roads were cleared of snow, but very wet.
You'll need to drive very carefully tonight. Those wet roads can quickly turn to ice as the temperature falls.
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