What is the temperature at youre house?

[jody_wy]

68 degree swing from last weeks low of -27 to Thrusday hig of 41...

[ElkHunter]

We've been mid to upper 40's for about a week now. For several nights, it didn't even get into freezing temps and stayed in the mid 30's. This morning is a little lower as it got down to 26 degrees.

Lot's of wind yesterday and that is unusual for this area. But I guess Cheyenne got hit and hit hard. They measured 101 mph winds coming off the mountains.

[sunsprit]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

(snip) But I guess Cheyenne got hit and hit hard. They measured 101 mph winds coming off the mountains.

No shi*, Elk Hunter ... we had fence posts blown down at the ranch and I checked the hangar just a few miles East of us ... where the almost brand new 25 knot windsock was shredded into a tattered remains on the frame.

[Poletop]

So, in other words "Welcome to Big Wonderful Wyoming".

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

Lot's of wind yesterday and that is unusual for this area. But I guess Cheyenne got hit and hit hard. They measured 101 mph winds coming off the mountains.

Those are hurricane force winds. Pretty amazing that far inland.

Just for comparison... When the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 hit the island community and destroyed most of it, the highest recorded wind gusts were 100 mph before the instruments were destroyed. The low pressure area of the hurricane lifts the ocean waters, which causes massive flooding, and wind driven waves destroy everything in their path. Wyoming doesn't have to contend with the flooding and storm surge, but those winds alone are deadly.

GALVESTON HURRICANE OF 1900 | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Houses near the beach began falling first. The storm lifted debris from one row of buildings and hurled it against the next row until eventually two-thirds of the city, then the fourth largest in Texas, had been destroyed. People striving to make their way through wind and water to refuge were struck by hurtling bricks and lumber and sometimes decapitated by flying slate from roofs. The greatest wind velocity registered before the anemometer blew away at 5:15 P.M. was an average of eighty-four miles an hour for a five-minute period, but gusts of 100 miles an hour had been recorded, and weathermen's estimates later reached more than 120 miles an hour. About 6:30 P.M. a storm wave, sweeping ashore in advance of the hurricane's vortex, caused a sudden rise of four feet in water depth, and shortly afterward the entire city was underwater to a maximum depth of fifteen feet. This storm wave caused much of the damage. The lowest barometer reading was 28.44, recorded shortly after 7:00 P.M. Around 10:00 P.M. the tide began to fall slowly, and little damage occurred after that.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Those are hurricane force winds. Pretty amazing that far inland.

Just for comparison... When the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 hit the island community and destroyed most of it, the highest recorded wind gusts were 100 mph before the instruments were destroyed. The low pressure area of the hurricane lifts the ocean waters, which causes massive flooding, and wind driven waves destroy everything in their path. Wyoming doesn't have to contend with the flooding and storm surge, but those winds alone are deadly.

68+ is considered Hurricane Force and those occur almost every day, someplace in the state, (Chugwater, Hanna/Elmo, Snowy Range, Red Dessert, Cheyenn all come to mind).

Our high, on this New Years Day, was 27. Went for a ride with Timber on the 4 wheeler. Stopped and had an ice cream at the store.

[Poletop]

A record high temperature of 49 degrees was set at Rock Springs yesterday. This breaks the old record of 48 set in 1954.
A record high temperature of 51 degrees was set at Casper yesterday. This breaks the old record of 48 set in 2008.
A record high temperature of 62 degrees was set at Cheyenne yesterday. This breaks the old record of 61 set in 1956.

[ElkHunter]

...sheridan...

1. 71 1/29/1931
2. 70 1/15/1974
3. 70 1/09/1953
4. 69 1/24/2005
5. 69 1/08/2002
6. 69 1/11/1953
7. 68 1/22/1981
8. 67 1/05/2012
9. 67 1/06/2006
10. 67 1/07/2003

[Poletop]

Welcome to summer. I had frost on the grass the last two mornings!!

[jody_wy]

was 28 here this morning have had frost most of June, grass is green but frezzed dried