Blair Miller

The Helena Regional Airport set a 24-hour snowfall record for Oct. 12 on Sunday, and residents woke up Monday to another several inches, dropping leaf-laden trees and causing some power outages.

The National Weather Service in Great Falls said the 2.6 inches of snow that fell Sunday at the airport was a new record for the date, and locations around Helena reported upward of six inches of new snow Monday morning.

A handful of ash trees around Helena had broken from the weight of the heavy early-season snow on Monday morning, and most of the others sagged low with their leaves not yet fallen for the fall and winter.

The National Weather Service said the heaviest snow in the Sunday-Monday storm initially fell in the Helena and Boulder area but moved northward toward the Roc

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