Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Snow that hit portions of the state Monday caused down trees and power outages, including in Meeteese where 11 inches of snow fell.
WORLAND - Record cold temperatures and record precipitation hit the Worland area Monday.
According to the National Weather Service climate data from the station at the Worland Municipal Airport, Worland hit a record low temperature on Monday, Sept. 7 at 33 degrees, beating the old record of 34 degrees set in 2010. The average low temperature is 46 degrees. Last year the low temperature on Sept. 7 was 50 degrees.
The high temperature was 63 degrees, a departure from the normal temp of 16 degrees. The normal temperature on Sept. 7 is 79 degrees.
The airport stations also recorded .62 inches of precipitation, a new record, breaking the old record of .2 inches set in 1991. The average precipitation for Sept. 7 is .02 inches.
A freeze warning was in place through Wednesday morning.
The record precipitation still has the area well below normal precipitation. For the year, Worland has seen 3.22 inches of precipitation, 2.38 less than the normal value of precipitation of 5.6 inches.
The storm that hit Monday also brought high winds with gusts as high as 48 mph recorded at the Worland airport.
Greybull also recorded record precipitation at .32 inches, above the .15 inches recorded in 2008 and .29 inches more than normal for Sept. 7.
Greybull did not have a record low, however, with 40 degrees recorded for Monday's low.
The NWS recorded 86 mph wind gusts on Monday at the Rock Springs Airport.
While Worland received rain, the strong early season wintry weather system produced widespread light snow across the Big Horn Basin region with upslope favored areas seeing heavier snow, according to the National Weather Service Riverton Office, including one inch in Ten Sleep.
The highest snow totals generally occurred in the foothills adjacent to the east slopes of the Wind River Mountains and around Casper and Casper Mountain.
According to the NWS snow totals ending at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday were four inches in Thermopolis, Meeteetse 11 inches, 10 inches seven miles northwest of Lander, six inches in Buffalo, 17 inches on Casper Mountain and 6.4 inches in Casper and one inch in Cody.
Big Horn Rural Electric announced a power outage Tuesday morning in Meeteetse due to the snow.
Rocky Mountain Power reported outages in Thermopolis, Riverton, Casper, Glenrock and Douglas, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Green River, Evanston and Kemmerer.
High Plains Power reported power outages in Lander, Ethete, Ft Washakie, Pavillion, Crowheart, Burris, and Dubois due to the storm.
Several highways in the southern portion of the state were closed Monday night and remained closed for part of Tuesday.
No unnecessary travel was listed Tuesday for U.S. 14A 22 miles east of Lovell and the Sheridan County line; and on U.S. 14.
U.S. 16 outside of Ten Sleep to Buffalo was closed Monday night but re-opened Tuesday morning due to winter conditions.
