Weather

Associated Press:

Lead - the mile-high town in the northern Black Hills - is approaching 7 feet of snow this month.

The 82.7 inches that has fallen is just shy of the April snowfall record of 86.7 inches, set in 1984.

Spring storms with a lot of snow are not unusual in the Black Hills area. The all-time record for a 24-hour snowfall at Rapid City Regional Airport is 18 inches - set on April 22, 2001.

The largest late-season snowfall in Rapid City was 10 inches on June 13, 1969.