cheyenne weather

Here's a demoralizing statistic: since 1883, it has snowed here 16 times during the month of June.

Since 1981, Cheyenne has averaged 1.7 days of measurable snowfall during May, with a monthly average of 2.3 inches.

June 12, 1947, a blizzard dumped 9 inches of snow on Cheyenne. It remains the latest snowfall ever recorded in the Capital City.

While Cheyenne continues to break records for snowfall in late May, here's a demoralizing statistic: since 1883, it has snowed here 16 times during the month of June.

March 18, 2003, a blizzard rolled across the Front Range, dumping 18 inches of snow in 24 hours.

Historically, Cheyenne has a 37 percent chance of snowfall on December 25th.

The turkeys weren't the only frozen animals on November 24, 1993, when the temperature plummeted to -16.

Two days before Thanksgiving in 1979, an arctic squall dumped over two feet of snow on the Capital City. The whiteout set records for the snowiest single day (19.8 inches on November 20th) and most total snowfall (25.6 inches) ever recorded from a single storm.

An average temperature of 40 degrees marks the seventh coldest October on record, according to the National Weather Service.

In 2009, Cheyenne broke a 137-year-old record with 28 inches of snowfall before Halloween.