Wyoming
Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Thursday, July 25, 2024
Some sun, some clouds and chances for rain in Wyoming on Thursday with heat and fire warnings in multiple locations. Breezy, hazy in several areas. Highs from the low 80s to near 106. Lows from the low 50s to near 70.
Central:
Casper: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Areas of smoke, slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., otherwise sunny and hot today with a high near 98 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight, a low near 68 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.
Lander: Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 90 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain and a low near 61.
Jeffrey City: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Areas of smoke before 11 a.m., slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 92 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Mostly cloudy and breezy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 62 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.
Southwest:
Evanston: Chance of rain, otherwise mostly cloudy today with a high near 82 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 54.
Rock Springs: Areas of smoke before 8 a.m., chance of rain, otherwise partly sunny and breezy today with a high near 89 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 11 p.m., a low near 58 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.
Kemmerer: Chance of rain, otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 83 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 5 a.m., a low near 53 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.
Western Wyoming:
Pinedale: Chance of rain, otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 4 a.m., a low near 52 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.
Afton: Rain likely, otherwise mostly cloudy today with a high near 83. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain and a low near 53.
La Barge: Chance of rain, otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 4 a.m., a low near 50 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.
Northwest:
Dubois: Chance of rain, otherwise mostly cloudy and breezy today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 5 a.m., a low near 54 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.
Jackson: Chance of rain, otherwise mostly cloudy today with a high near 83 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 5 a.m. and a low near 50.
Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park: Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 78 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 5 a.m., a low near 47 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.
Bighorn Basin:
Thermopolis: Slight chance of rain after 1 p.m., otherwise increasing clouds and hot today with a high near 98 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Areas of smoke after 2 a.m. slight chance of rain mainly after midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 63.
Cody: Areas of smoke, a slight chance of rain after 1 p.m., otherwise mostly cloudy today with a high near 93 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Areas of smoke before 8 p.m., slight chance of rain before 10 p.m., otherwise mostly cloudy with a low near 63 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.
Ten Sleep: Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., otherwise increasing clouds and hot today with a high near 98 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 2 a.m., a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.
North Central:
Buffalo: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 99 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 2 a.m., a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.
Sheridan: Excessive heat warning until 9 p.m. tonight. Red flag fire warning from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze before 9 a.m., slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise increasing clouds and hot today with a high near 106. Chance of rain before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 63.
Ranchester: Excessive heat warning until 9 p.m. tonight. Red flag fire warning from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise partly sunny and hot today with a high near 104. Chance of rain before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 63.
Northeast:
Gillette: Heat advisory in effect from 10 a.m. today until midnight tonight. Red flag fire warning in effect from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze before noon, otherwise increasing clouds, hot and breezy today with a high near 102 and wind gusts as high as 31 mph. Slight chance of rain before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph.
Sundance: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze before noon, otherwise sunny today with a high near 97 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight, a low near 67 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.
Moorcroft: Heat advisory in effect from 10 a.m. today until midnight tonight. Red flag fire warning in effect from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Sunny and hot today with a high near 104 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Slight chance of rain before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph.
Eastern Plains:
Torrington: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 9 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze, sunny, hot and breezy today with a high near 102 and wind from 15-20 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wheatland: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 9 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze, sunny, hot and breezy today with a high near 100 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Mostly cloudy and breezy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight, a low near 70 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.
Wright: Heat advisory in effect from 10 a.m. today until midnight tonight. Red flag fire warning in effect from noon today until 11 p.m. tonight. Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 101 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Slight chance of rain before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 66 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.
Southeast:
Cheyenne: Fire weather watch from noon today until 9 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze, sunny and hot today with a high near 94 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 61 and wind from 15-20 mph.
Laramie: Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise widespread haze, increasing clouds and hot today with a high near 90. Mostly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 59.
Chugwater: Red flag fire warning from noon today until 9 p.m. tonight. Widespread haze, sunny, hot and breezy today with a high near 96 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Mostly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 67 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.
South Central:
Rawlins: Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise widespread haze, increasing clouds and hot today with a high near 93. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight and a low near 61.
Saratoga: Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise widespread haze, mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 91. Chance of rain mainly before midnight, otherwise mostly cloudy overnight with a low near 56.
Hanna: Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., otherwise widespread haze, mostly sunny and hot today with a high near 91. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before midnight and a low near 59.
Wyoming
Wyoming power plant booming with suspected UFO, drone sightings — but still no answers after over a year
Fleets of drones and suspected UFOs have been spotted hovering over a Wyoming power plant for more than a year, while a local sheriff’s department is still searching for clues.
Officials with the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office recorded scores of beaming, drone-like objects circling around the Red Desert and Jim Bridger Power Plant in Rock Springs over the last 13 months — though they didn’t specify how many, the Cowboy State Daily reported.
Sheriff John Grossnickle was one of the first to witness the spectacles, and last saw the mind-boggling formation on Dec. 12, his spokesperson Jason Mower told the outlet.
The fleets periodically congregate over the power plant in coordinated formations, Mower claimed.
The sheriff’s office hasn’t been able to recover any of the suspected UFOs, telling the outlet they’re too high to shoot down.
The law enforcement outpost’s exhaustive efforts to get to the truth haven’t yielded any results, even after Grossnickle enlisted help from Wyoming US Rep. Harriet Hageman — who Mower claimed saw the formation during a trip to the power plant.
Hageman could not be reached for comment.
“We’ve worked with everybody. We’ve done everything we can to figure out what they are, and nobody wants to give us any answers,” Mower said, according to the outlet.
At first, spooked locals bombarded the sheriff’s office with calls about the confounding aerial formations. Now, though, Mower said that people seem to have accepted it as “the new normal.”
Mower noted that the objects, which he interchangeably referred to as “drones” and “unidentified flying objects,” have yet to pose a danger to the public or cause any damage to the power plant itself.
“It’s like this phenomenon that continues to happen, but it’s not causing any, you know, issues that we have to deal with — other than the presence of them,” he told the outlet.
The spokesperson promised the sheriff’s office would “certainly act accordingly” if the drones pose an imminent harm.
Meanwhile, Niobrara County Sheriff Randy Starkey told the Cowboy State Daily that residents of his community also reported mystery drone sightings over Lance Creek — more than 300 miles from the Jim Bridger Power Plant — starting in late October 2024 and ending in early March.
Starkey said he’s “just glad they’re gone,” according to the outlet.
Drone sightings captured the nation’s attention last year when they were causing hysteria in sightings over New Jersey.
Just days into his second term, President Trump had to clarify that the drones were authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration to quell worries that they posed a national security threat.
Still, the public wasn’t convinced, but the mystery slowly faded as the sightings plummeted.
In October, though, an anonymous source with an unnamed military contractor told The Post that their company was responsible for the hysteria.
Much of Wyoming outside of Yellowstone and Grand Teton also struggles with emergency response time.
By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile
Wyoming’s U.S. Sen. John Barrasso is pushing legislation to upgrade emergency communications in national parks — a step he says would improve responses in far-flung areas of parks like Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
“This bill improves the speed and accuracy of emergency responders in locating and assisting callers in need of emergency assistance,” Barrasso told members of the National Parks Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the bill. “These moments make a difference between visitors being able to receive quick care and continue their trip or facing more serious medical complications.”
The legislation directs the U.S. Department of the Interior to develop a plan to upgrade National Park Service 911 call centers with next-generation 911 technology.
Among other things, these upgrades would enable them to receive text messages, images and videos in addition to phone calls, enhancing their ability to respond to emergencies or rescues in the parks.
Each year, rangers and emergency services respond to a wide range of calls — from lost hikers to car accidents and grizzly maulings — in the Wyoming parks’ combined 2.5 million acres.
Outside park boundaries, the state’s emergency service providers also face steep challenges, namely achieving financial viability. Many patients, meantime, encounter a lack of uniformity and longer 911 response times in the state’s so-called frontier areas.
Improving the availability of ground ambulance services to respond to 911 calls is a major priority in Wyoming’s recent application for federal Rural Health Transformation Project funds.
Barrasso’s office did not respond to a WyoFile request for comment on the state’s broader EMS challenges by publication time.
The bill from the prominent Wyoming Republican, who serves as Senate Majority Whip, joined a slate of federal proposals the subcommittee considered last week. With other bills related to the official name of North America’s highest mountain, an extra park fee charged to international visitors, the health of a wild horse herd and the use of off-highway vehicles in Capitol Reef National Park, Barrasso’s “Making Parks Safer Act” was among the least controversial.
What’s in it
Barrasso brought the bipartisan act along with Sens. Angus King (I-Maine), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.).
The bill would equip national park 911 call centers with technological upgrades that would improve and streamline responses, Barrasso said. He noted that hundreds of millions of visitors stream into America’s national parks annually. That includes more than 8 million recreation visits to Wyoming’s national parks in 2024.
“Folks travel from across the world to enjoy the great American outdoors, and for many families, these memories last a lifetime,” he testified. “This is a bipartisan bill that ensures visitors who may need assistance can be reached in an accurate and timely manner.”
The Park Service supports Barrasso’s bill, Mike Caldwell, the agency’s associate director of park planning, facilities and lands, said during the hearing. It’s among several proposals that are “consistent with executive order 14314, ‘Making America Beautiful Again by Improving our National Parks,’” Caldwell said.
“These improvements are largely invisible to visitors, so they strengthen the emergency response without deterring the park’s natural beauty or history,” he said.
Other park issues
National parks have been a topic of contention since President Donald Trump included them in his DOGE efforts in early 2025. Since then, efforts to sell off federal land and strip park materials of historical information that casts a negative light on the country, along with a 43-day government shutdown, have continued to fuel debate over the proper management of America’s parks.
Several of these changes and issues came up during the recent National Parks Subcommittee hearing.
Among them was the recent announcement that resident fee-free dates will change in 2026. Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth will no longer be included in those days, but visitors won’t have to pay fees on new dates: Flag Day on June 14, which is Trump’s birthday and Oct. 27, Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday.
Conservation organizations and others decried those changes as regressive.
At the hearing, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), assured the room that “when this president is in the past, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth will not only have fee-free national park admission, they will occupy, again, incredible places of pride in our nation’s history.”
Improvements such as the new fee structure “put American families first,” according to the Department of the Interior. “These policies ensure that U.S. taxpayers, who already support the National Park System, continue to enjoy affordable access, while international visitors contribute their fair share to maintaining and improving our parks for future generations,” Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said in an announcement.
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