When Does Cheyenne Get This Year’s First Snow-In?

The first snowfall for Cheyenne usually arrives in October. Every three or four years it starts in September, but if you prefer later, you may be okay for a while still.

The average first snowfall hits Cheyenne on Oct. 2, so we’ve escaped unscathed well past that average in 2016, and then some.

Late in the next week there are two to three days with chances of rain or snow. Otherwise, when the word “rain” is mentioned with “or snow,” you know the chances of a real first snowfall are next to nothing.

For the week of Oct 30, the description is much the same, just slightly colder, and that chance is also in the form of “rain or snow”. That's likely just a “wet snow” that we slush off, and don't call a real first snow, unless it slushes up to half a foot, but that isn't really possible, is it?

The weeks of Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 are both good, “mostly dry” and “mostly decent weather”. It’s not until the week of Nov. 20 we see, “One main storm system.” In short, it looks like Cheyenne may have another whole month before our first real cabin fever.