Article: White October

By Michael Van Cassell

mcassell@wyomingnews.com

CHEYENNE - Just a month into the snowy season, local accumulation already is nearly half the annual average.

The National Weather Service reported as of 6 p.m. Thursday that more than 13.8 inches had fallen in Cheyenne over the previous two days, bringing snowfall totals for the month of October to 26.6 inches.

That breaks a 103-year-old record of 21.6 inches, set in 1906. The annual average snowfall in Cheyenne is 52.6 inches.

"It is pretty amazing," meteorologist Mike Weiland said. "If it keeps up like this, we'll have a whole lot of snow. But it tends to balance out."

There were several crashes in and near Cheyenne because of the storm, ...

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