Daily Features - Thursday, 28 May

Wyoming Sunrise

Today's Wyoming sunrise was submitted by Ellen Beitzinger. Ellen writes, "Cool sunrise picture that my son and daughter took while taking a sunrise hike near Powder River yesterday. Lucky shot, right place, right time!"

Photo by Ellen BeitzingerMay 27, 2026

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Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast

Partly sunny to sunny in much of Wyoming Thursday with a chance of afternoon rain and breezy conditions. Some areas of early rain overnight. Highs from the upper 60s to low 90s. Lows in the 40s and 50s.

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"Bolt of the day. Near full moon illuminates the sky. Storm was about 35 miles away." — Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast

Today's question to Don Day

Mark James Mullins of Douglas

In regard to your thunderstorm season article, can you reassess the data on a per-capita basis, especially when considering population of the states? It could affect me as I own a hill on my property which I plan a communications tower and likely will have a lightning rod installed when it goes in.

Don Day

FEMA has a good lightning database that takes into account lightning risk, potential property loss, etc. based on population and lightning frequency. Data is available on a county by county basis. Lots and lots of lightning data available here which may help in quest for more lightning information. https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/lightning