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Article: White October
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
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- October 30, 2009
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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, ...