Daily Features - Saturday, 12 October

Wyoming Sunrise

Today's Wyoming sunrise was captured by Betty Marquardt. Betty writes, "First light of day came bursting into Sunlight Basin."

Photo by Betty MarquardtOctober 12, 2024

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Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast

Mostly sunny across much of Wyoming on Saturday. Smoky, hazy in some areas. Highs from the upper 60s to the lows 80s. Lows mostly in the 30s.

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A fire tainted sunset and beautiful fall colors just east of Dubois on the circle ranch. — 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