Not only record early snow, but also record cold
It’s still summer, but a blast of wintry weather dumped up to 20 inches of snow in parts of Wyoming on Wednesday and Thursday and sent overnight temperatures plummeting into the 20s in some areas.
- It was the earliest snowfall on record for parts of Wyoming and southwest South Dakota.
- Twenty inches in the Bighorn Mountains in north-central Wyoming.
- Ten inches for Buffalo, Wyoming
- Eight inches in Custer, South Dakota.
- The 3 to 5 inches that fell in Cody, Wyoming, is the city’s earliest recorded snowfall since records began in 1915. The previous recorded earliest snowfall in Cody came on Sept. 12, 1970.
- Just under an inch fell in the Rapid City, South Dakota, area, breaking the previous record set on Sept. 13, 1970, for the earliest snowfall.
The heavy, wet snow snapped off tree branches and caused power outages in Buffalo and the surrounding area.
Record low temperatures
Meanwhile, hard frosts were reported in western Montana.
Kalispell reported a record low of 23 degrees Friday morning while Missoula dropped to a record low of 25.
Temperatures hovered around freezing in Denver, forcing many gardeners to wrap their plants for protection.
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