This Week in Pittsburgh History: An Early Blizzard Cancels Trick-or-Treating
If you were a kid in 1993, you likely remember trick-or-treating being canceled — or collecting candy in the snow.
PHOTO BY DAVE DICELLO
There’s only been one snow-covered Halloween in the past 50 years, and if you were a kid in the 1990s, you likely remember it.
On Oct. 31, 1993, snow covered the ground for Halloween, which fell on a Sunday.
Twenty Halloweens in the past 50 years have been rainy, and two had snowflakes fall, but only one was a heavy snowfall.
That Halloween was also the coldest Halloween on record, with temperatures reaching 35 degrees.
Related: What Are Trick-or-Treat Times Around Pittsburgh for 2025?
Watch WTAE’s Ryan Recker describe how it ended his “trick or treating career.”
