Wyoming - First snow more than a teaser

This year’s first snowstorm was a strong one.

Unlike the usual first storm of the season, the snow didn’t fall briefly and immediately melt off; it stuck around for most of three days, accompanied by strong winds and was followed by temperatures of the deep-freeze variety.

Dan Berc, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Riverton, said the storm dumped 5 inches of snow on Powell over the weekend, starting Friday evening and continuing through early Sunday morning.

Temperatures dipped to a low of 20 degrees on Monday morning, according to powellweather.net .

Cody got 7.5 inches of snow over the weekend, while Lovell got 4.1 inches.

But local snowfall totals were frozen drops in the bucket compared to our neighbors on the southern end of the Big Horn Basin and the central western part of Wyoming.

The storm dumped 2 feet of snow in some areas around Thermopolis, with the largest report of 25.3 inches, Berc said.

“That was very localized,” he said.

Meanwhile, Riverton got 12.1 inches in town, and Lander recorded 29.7 inches at the airport.

“That was the record October snowfall for a storm, and the seventh-greatest total of all time,” Berc said.