Record early snowfall in Kansas City 10/15/2018 Earliest snowfall in at least 120 years, since 1898. Wait, what? Wasn’t snowfall supposed to be a thing of the past? NWS Kansas City on Twitter Measurable snowfall is pretty rare during the month of October in KC; only having occurred 7 times since records began. However, yesterday we broke a new record by measuring the earliest snowfall (0.2″) which broke the previous record set in 1898.