View of snow-covered Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, from nearby Wildcat Mountain on Oct. 10, 2015.

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Light snow dusted the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire overnight Friday into early Saturday morning, the season's first measurable snow at the highest peak in the Northeast U.S.

Typical of weather at the 6,288 foot summit, the snow was accompanied by winds up to sustained hurricane-force (76 mph), with a peak wind gust to 84 mph, sending wind chills into the single digits below zero.

By Saturday morning, the snow had ended thanks to high pressure building in from the west, leading to a spectacular, snow-dusted view of the mountain from surrounding areas, and at the summit itself.

It also snowed Saturday morning atop Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, the state's tallest peak (4,393 ft.), according to meteorological content producer, .

"The best spots for first snows (in New England) are usually Aroostook County, Maine -- the Rooftop we Mainers call it," said Sinko, a Maine native and graduate of Lyndon State University. "Other best spots are the White Mountains of New Hampshire, northern Green Mountains of Vermont and Adirondacks of New York."

In another harbinger of winter, a brief downpour of sleet Friday was the .

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Officially going down in the records as a trace of snow, the National Weather Service office in Caribou noted this set a record for the shortest period between the last trace of snow from the previous season and the first such occurrence in the new season.

The same weather system responsible for this also dusted higher elevations of Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, as pointed out by NWS-Caribou.

A private, non-profit, scientific and educational institution, the, maintains a staffed weather station atop the summit for research and educational programs.

According to the observatory, average October snowfall atop the peak is 17.6 inches. The record October monthly snowfall was 78.9 inches in 2005, while the 24-hour October snow record, there, is 25.7 inches, also in 2005.

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The summit averages 2.2 inches of September snow, but the second warmest September on record in New Hampshire this year didn't allow accumulating snow.

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Mt. Washington averages 281.2 inches each season, or just under 23.5 feet of snow.

Due to their exposed, summit location, average wind speeds in October are 34.7 mph, with a peak October gust of 161 mph measured in 1943.

Taking weather measurements since October 1932, the most famous measurement on Mt. Washington was a world-record strong wind gust of 231 mph on April 12, 1934.

That record would stand until January 2010, when the World Meteorological Organization announced that a wind gust of 253 mph during Cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia was the new world record surface wind speed.

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The crew from the Mount Washington Observatory recorded heavy accumulation of rime ice in March of 2012 when temperatures reached -8 degrees Fahrenheit.