Wyoming
Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Sunny in Wyoming on Tuesday. Smoky. Highs from the upper 60s to the low 80s. Lows from the low 30s to the mid 50s.
Central:
Casper: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 77 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 47.
Riverton: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 79 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 42.
Jeffrey City: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 75 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke before midnight and a low near 42.
Southwest:
Evanston: Slight chance of rain after 9 a.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 71 and mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 39.
Green River: Sunny today with a high near 73 and partly cloudy overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 43.
Lyman: Mostly sunny today with a high near 73 and partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 41.
Western Wyoming:
Pinedale: Sunny today with a high near 69 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 36.
Alpine: Sunny today with a high near 74 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 41.
Big Piney: Sunny today with a high near 71 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 33.
Northwest:
Dubois: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny and breezy today with a high near 68 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 41.
Jackson: Sunny today with a high near 73 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 37.
Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park: Sunny today with a high near 66 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 34.
Bighorn Basin:
Thermopolis: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 79 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke after 9 p.m. and a low near 48.
Cody: Areas of smoke before 7 a.m., otherwise sunny today with a high near 77 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 52.
Ten Sleep: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 75 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke after 11 p.m. and a low near 50.
North Central:
Buffalo: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 77 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 57.
Sheridan: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 83 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 44.
Ranchester: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 80 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 45.
Northeast:
Gillette: Areas of smoke, otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 78 mostly clear overnight with a low near 44.
Newcastle: Areas of smoke, otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 78 and clear overnight with a low near 48.
Moorcroft: Areas of smoke, otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 80 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 40.
Eastern Plains:
Torrington: Hazy, otherwise sunny today with a high near 82 and mostly clear overnight with widespread haze and a low near 38.
Wheatland: Hazy before 3 p.m., areas of smoke after 3 p.m., otherwise sunny today with a high near 80 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke before midnight, widespread haze before 3 a.m. and a low near 48.
Midwest: Areas of smoke, otherwise sunny today with a high near 79 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke after 10 p.m. and a low near 44.
Southeast:
Cheyenne: Areas of smoke before 9 a.m., otherwise sunny today with a high near 77 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 44.
Laramie: Sunny today with a high near 73 and mostly clear overnight with a low near 40.
Chugwater: Hazy after 3 p.m., otherwise sunny today with a high near 77 and mostly clear overnight with widespread haze and a low near 47.
South Central:
Rawlins: Sunny today with a high near 72 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 42.
Encampment: Sunny today with a high near 71 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 41.
Hanna: Sunny today with a high near 70 and mostly clear overnight with widespread haze before 9 p.m. and a low near 41.
Wyoming
Measles confirmed in Teton County, Wyoming, as summer crowds flock to parks – East Idaho News
JACKSON, Wyo. (WyoFile) — After confirming a case of measles in an unvaccinated adult in Teton County, Wyoming, health officials are warning the public about possible exposure at locations in Grand Teton National Park and Jackson.
The news comes as summer crowds flood the region with tourists from around the world.
The public may have been exposed between June 17-25 at several locations in Teton County, according to the Wyoming Health Department. They include restaurants in Grand Teton National Park’s Colter Bay Village on June 17-18; a Colter Bay convenience store on June 20 and the Target in Jackson on June 25.
“We are asking people who may have been exposed to watch for measles symptoms for 21 days past the exposure date and consider avoiding crowded public places and high-risk settings such as daycare centers,” State Health Officer Alexia Harrist said in a press release.
Monitoring is especially critical for people who have not been vaccinated with the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, according to the health department.
It marks Wyoming’s second confirmed case of the highly contagious infection in 2026. Wyoming went 15 years without a confirmed case of measles until last year.
Resurgence
Health officials confirmed Wyoming’s first 2026 case in May. An adult patient in Fremont County who did not have a confirmed vaccination status caught the disease, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.
Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 — indicating no endemic transmission for 12 months or more. But it re-emerged in recent years primarily due to declining vaccination rates and increased public health skepticism. Those trends spawned during the COVID-19 pandemic and have persisted during the second Trump administration.
The neighboring state of Utah is one of America’s 2026 measles hotspots, with 499 cases reported so far this year.
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A vaccination rate of 95% is necessary for community immunity to prevent measles outbreaks, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
In 2025, Wyoming’s proportion of kindergarten students who had completed the MMR vaccine was 93.6%, the CDC reports. That rate is higher than Colorado, Utah and Montana for the same year.
However, it’s declined overall since 2012-13, when Wyoming’s kindergarten vaccination rate was above 97%. It fell to 90.2% in 2020-21 before inching back up to the current 93.6%.
A measles case had not been reported in the state since 2010 until July 2025, when the health department confirmed measles in an unvaccinated child from Natrona County. By year’s end, 13 more cases were confirmed. The majority involved unvaccinated children and adults.
Along with being extremely contagious, measles can cause severe complications like pneumonia and brain swelling and can leave lasting impacts on the immune system. One to three out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from complications, according to the CDC.
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GILLETTE, Wyo. — As the Aug. 18 primary election approaches, County 17 is introducing candidate questionnaires to help voters make informed decisions at the ballot box.
Every candidate in the primary field was sent the same three questions and given a limit of 500 words, which could be distributed among their answers as they saw fit. To ensure a fair and direct line to the community, all responses are published exactly as submitted, without edits or alterations.
Candidates were asked:
- What are the most crucial challenges your constituents are facing?
- If elected, how will you address these challenges?
- What qualities or qualifications do you possess that have prepared you to meet these challenges?
Questionnaires are being published on a rolling basis online through Aug. 11. They will be accessible via the County 17 Election Tracker.
Scott Smith (R), Wyoming state treasurer
What are the most crucial challenges your constituents are facing?
Everywhere I go many Wyoming citizens are concerned that our government is selling out our state lands to the highest bidder for crony capitalism. Some are concerned about Data Centers, Commercial Wind Generators, or nuclear waste storage. The biggest concern is the resources these outfits are taking, secondly, they are concerned about health issues related to living nearby, and lastly they are concerned with cost associated with these projects being passed onto the taxpayer.
If elected, how will you address these challenges?
One of the things that many people don’t know is that the State Treasurer sits on the State Land and Investment Board. (SLIB) The same issues that concern our citizens are the same reasons that I have decided to run for this office. The SLIB has voted to lease state lands to a hydrogen plant in Converse County that would take eight gallons of our valuable water to produce one gallon of hydrogen jet fuel using wind and solar generation to power the plant. These same elected officials have sold off $100 million of our state lands to the federal government. I believe that some things are not for sale. As Treasurer you can count on me to count the cost and listen to the people in the public testimony. If we are going to accept some of these projects the citizens need to have the benefit, like lower utility costs.
What qualities/qualifications do you possess that have prepared you to meet these challenges?
My bachelor’s degree is in Business Administration with an emphasis in management and marketing. I will be a leader in the state treasurer’s office that creates a positive work environment that will allow our investment team to create higher returns on the people’s money that the state invests. I would like to work with the legislature to use these interest earnings to buy down the people’s property taxes to alleviate part of the burden inflation has caused on the average citizen. My day job, I work as a bookkeeper and work with numbers day in and day out and have corrected some inefficiencies to help small businesses become more profitable. I plan to do that within the state office and make those profits available to the legislature to reduce the tax burden for the people. I have also served in the Wyoming House of Representatives for Goshen County and I have served on the Appropriations Committee and I am familiar with the massive state budget.
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