The Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service says severe storms featuring heavy rain, quarter size hail and winds up to 60 miles per hour are possible again this afternoon [Aug. 13] in southeastern Wyoming.

The agency posted the following on its website:

A Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms covers most of southeast Wyoming and Nebraska Panhandle for this afternoon and evening. Storms will be capable of producing quarter sized hail and 60 mph downburst winds, along with very heavy rainfall. Be weather aware today!

Heavy rain is once again possible:Showers and thunderstorms look to become widespread again this afternoon through the evening hours. Some of these storms will create heavy rainfall and the possibility of flash flooding. Especially where storms move over the same area (training storms). A Marginal Risk for excessive rainfall has been identified along the Interstate 80 corridor from Sidney to Rawlins as well as Interstate 25 north to Wheatland. Be flood aware today, never drive through flooded roadways, they might be washed out. If encountering flooded roads, turn around, don’t drown!

Cheyenne, Laramie Forecasts

Cheyenne Forecast:

Laramie Forecast

Monday

A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.

Despite recent signs that San Francisco is on a path to economic recovery, condos in the city are yet to make a comeback, as several sellers are still slashing their asking prices to try to attract reluctant buyers.

As of Tuesday morning, there were a total of 687 condos listed for sale on real estate marketplace Zillow in San Francisco. Of these, 87 had price reduction—over 12 percent of all listings. Vacation rental investor Rohin Dhar, who often shares Zillow listings with dramatic price cuts on social media, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, about a one-bedroom condo unit in downtown San Francisco; it was recently sold for $680,000, down from the sum of $825,000 it fetched when it was purchased in 2015.

“As condo prices have declined in downtown San Francisco, one bedroom condos have been hit particularly hard,” Dhar wrote on the social-media platform. “Are you generally just better off renting than buying a one bedroom apartment?”

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The Zillow listing shows that the asking price for the property, which was sold on August 7, was reduced four times by the seller since the property was put up for sale in May this year for an initial asking price of $750,000—already much less than its 2015 price. The condo was built in 2009, and homeowner association (HOA) fees are $707 per month.

Dhar shared the listing for another one-bedroom condo unit in downtown San Francisco, which is now being sold for less than it fetched in 2005—about two decades ago. The 618 square feet condo at 260 King Street was sold for $505,000 in November 2005; 10 years later, in June 2015, it was sold again for a higher sum, $615,000; and in 2018, it was purchased for an even higher $670,000.

Now the condo’s seller is trying to get significantly less for the unit. The condo was listed in February for $579,000, and since then, has seen three different price cuts. On August 1, the asking price was lowered to $498,000, but the unit remains unsold. The condo was built in 2004—which means it is 20 years old—and HOA fees are $980 per month.

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Condo prices in San Francisco have seen significant drops since the pandemic, as the city faced a mass exodus of workers, especially in downtown, as well as office and retailers’ closures. Between February 2020 and February 2024, San Francisco’s condo values plunged by 12.8 percent, according to Zillow data, from $1.14 million to $997,000.

While some condo owners are still slashing listed prices and office buildings remain vacant, there have been reports that the situation is starting to change in San Francisco.

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Patrick Carlisle, chief market analyst at Compass, recently told the San Francisco Chronicle that the city’s condo market will face a significant rebound this year, pointing at his company’s data showing that the median price of a condo rose by 5.6 percent between December 2023 and February 2024 compared to the same stretch of time in 2022-23.

Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb says now isn’t the time to ask voters to approve a sales tax hike for affordable housing.  

Webb says the measure, pushed by current Mayor Mike Johnston, will put a tax measure by Denver Health in jeopardy.

“I’m not opposed to affordable housing, I’m opposed to the timing,” Webb said. “I was surprised that Mayor Johnston, who has a lot of issues on his plate primarily around homelessness, did not delay it until the spring in order to get one of these issues passed.”

Webb says Denver Health — which is asking for a 0.35% increase — needs to be the priority. The hospital says it provided nearly $136 million in uncompensated care over the last six years.

“Other hospitals in the Denver Metro area can’t carry that patient load. Denver Health is also a teaching hospital, and it is also the number one trauma center,” says Webb. “I think Michael is a bright guy. He’s a policymaker. He’s good at that. I question whether he’s a good administrator. Time will tell.”

Johnston’s .05% tax for affordable housing would be the eighth dedicated tax in the city and the largest. Voters have also approved sales taxes for parks, college scholarships, mental health, healthy food for kids, climate change and homelessness.

You can see those funds broken down by year here.

If both tax measures pass in November, it would bring the city’s overall sales tax to nearly 10%, on par with the likes of Los Angeles and New York.

Webb’s message to voters is, “If you have to choose, you make sure you vote yes on Denver Health. It shouldn’t be that difficult. Everybody in the city should be saying the same thing. In some cities around the country, they don’t even have a public hospital. We should be saying Denver Health is ours and we’re going to fight for it, and we’re going to protect it, and we’re going to nurture it, and we’re going to make sure it’s around for several generations to come.”

A spokesperson for Johnston released a statement saying, “Mayor Johnston is a strong supporter of the Denver Health measure and will fight to ensure it gets passed. For too long, Denver leaders have been talking about the need for affordable housing without taking the bold action needed to address it at scale. And the longer we wait, the more expensive and more difficult it will be to truly address this crisis. The teachers, nurses, seniors, and working families that make our city run deserve both accessible healthcare and affordable housing, and we will work to make both a reality.”

Here are the dedicated sales taxes voters have approved:

• Nov. 3, 2020: 2A Climate Protection – .025%
• Nov. 3, 2020: 2B Housing and Shelter Tax – 0.25%
• Nov. 6, 2018: 301 Mental Health (Caring for Denver) – 0.25%
• Nov. 6, 2018: 302 Feed Denver Kids (Healthy Food) – 0.08%
• Nov. 6, 2018: 300 College Tuition (Prosperity Denver) – 0.08%
• Nov. 6, 2018: 2A Trails and Open Space (Parks) – 0.25%
• Nov. 7, 2006: 1A Denver Preschool Program – 0.15%