Winter in Gillette
Take a look back at the 2019 Gillette winter through the lens of News Record photographers August Frank and Rhianna Gelhart.
Margaret Owens carries her son Avery, 3, up a snowy slope at Cam-plex Park on Wednesday.
A man clears the wet and heavy snow from a sidewalk after a spring snowfall left Gillette under a fresh blanket of several inches of fresh, white snow Wednesday morning.
First-grader Sophia Spradlin builds a snowman beneath a tree before class begins at Paintbrush Elementary on Wednesday.
While the calendar says springtime, the weather in northeast Wyoming was on a different schedule Wednesday in Gillette.
Avery Owens, 3, covers his face as he and Margaret Owens sled down a hill at Cam-plex Park on Wednesday. The snow provided a day off for Margaret, who is a substitute teacher, and the family figured it was their last chance for some sledding.
Jack Bell sits down with George Osborne, who owns The Local with his wife, for a cup of coffee after shoveling now outside. “Coffee’s on the house today,” Osborne told Bell.
As a heavy, wet snow continues to fall Wednesday morning, Jack Bell, a customer of The Local coffee shop on Gillette Avenue in downtown, helps the shop out by clearing the sidewalks.
News Record Photo/August Frank
Joe Paulson clears snow along Martingale Road outside Cam-plex park on Thursday.
A blanket of snow covers the neighborhoods West of downtown, yet roads remain clear for traffic on Thursday morning.
Janet Thorne attempts to clear her front walkway Thursday morning after a spring storm hit Wednesday afternoon and evening. The city of Gillette downgraded its Level 3 snow emergency to a Level 2, but is still urging no unnecessary travel.
Mallory Kluck, 7, makes her way to the bus as she and other students at Stocktrail Elementary were released early Wednesday.
Blowing snow is limiting visibility on 4J Road early Wednesday afternoon as a snowstorm builds up strength as it moves into Gillette.
A car cuts a path through the water filling the roadway outside Cam-plex Park on Tuesday evening. Blue skies and temperatures in the 40s led to rapid snow melt and large pools of water that had frozen over the next morning morning, just in time for a blizzard to roll through Gillette later Wednesday.
Mike Cook shovels snow on the sidewalk of Gillette Avenue on Saturday.
Gillette Avenue merchants shovel snow in below-zero weather, as reported by a sign above the entrance to First Interstate Bank. Temperatures dropped two minus 13 overnight.
Tina Graham shovels ice out of her cows' water Thursday morning at her ranch while her father handles the feeding. Graham has recently started the calving process during a winter that has been more challenging due to the temperatures being so low for so long.
Steam rises above Campbell County Memorial Hospital as equipment inside works to keep the building warm for patients a temperatures plunged well below zero Monday. A morning hazardous weather warning of wind chills of minus 20-30 was reported for portions of the Black Hills and northeast Wyoming.
Icicles freeze over the hairs on a horse's chin as it eats hay amidst a light snowfall Tuesday.
The weather may be crisp and clear outside, but temperatures remain cold Monday morning.
Jackson Gatlin, 9, runs into Paintbrush Elementary School on Tuesday morning. Paintbrush is a neighborhood school, meaning all of the kids walk there. Temperatures fell below 10 degrees Tuesday morning and are expected to drop further on Wednesday.
Wendy Clements works to clear the sidewalks along West Boxelder Road on Monday.
Sonny Roberts plows the snow along the sidewalks of West Foruth Street on Tuesday. The city plows the streets, but not the sidewalks, Roberts said, so he takes it upon himself to help out his neighbors along the street.
A Gillette Walmart shopper trudges through an onslaught of blowing snow Monday. Snow began falling in the afternoon, resulting in an accumulation of more than 5 inches by 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Cole Lawrence, 9, takes a break from sledding to play with his new puppy Max on Wednesday outside Sage Valley Junior High School. Wednesday was the first day Cole and his mother felt it wasn't too cold to go sleighing.
Scarfs do little to warm up a statue of two children outside the post office.
Scott Sanderlin and Sabin Skaggs, who work for Choice Mine and Industrial Services, shovel snow along the sidewalk outside First Interstate Bank on Monday morning.
Scott Sanderlin works to push Rico Delgrande's truck as it gets caught in a deep section of snow off of Gillette Avenue on Monday. All night snow flurries Sunday and Monday morning led to snow building up on side streets and sidewalks.
Shannon Carr, 16, gathers carts in the Albertsons parking lot while bundled up on a cold and breezy Saturday afternoon.
A dog walker marches across the snow covered filed at Cam-plex Park on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018.
Gillette received its first snowfall of the season Friday morning as the temperature reached a low of 32 degrees overnight. Campbell County Emergency Management Coordinator David King said he measured 2 inches of snow at his home in Gillette and heard a report that Rozet received 5 inches.
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