The polar vortex that swept across Wyoming this weekend dumped heavy snow in the mountains. And by a lot, we mean a lot.

A monitoring station above Centennial in the Snowy Range recorded 65.5 inches of snow in 40 hours. Another monitoring station on the west side of the Snowy Range recorded over 75 inches over the same period.

That doesn't mean there's 66 inches of snow covering Centennial. The National Weather Service (NWS) hasn’t posted official totals yet, but there was at least a foot and a half of snow covering the community by Monday morning.

"The Snowy Range and Sierra Madres got clobbered," said Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Don Day. "The amount of snow they got between Thursday and Monday was very impressive."

If Wyoming gets a few more systems like this before the end

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