25° here in Thermopolis, the air really kicked up yesterday here, almost pulled me out of the house when I opened the back door and the air caught it.
I think we get a bit different weather here than over Casper way, we are in sort of a pocket of hills around us, usually the air here doesn't act up as much.
Morning. Sun is shining. 39 degrees, 20 mph wind. Last night, we had steady winds just under 50 mph and gusts up around 70 mph.
Tom lives at the south end of Big Horn Basin which is ringed by mountains. That area tends to get less wind in the winter and higher temperatures in the summer than Natrona County. My house, as I've probably mentioned before, is on the side of one of the ridges that comes off Casper Mountain. The ridge is perfectly angled to catch the prevailing wind out of the southwest. The wind we get here is considerably higher than what we used to get when we lived in town just a couple of miles away. Ten years ago, my son lived at the northwest end of Big Horn Basin on a ranch near Clark. They had wind that made ours look like gentle zephrs. He called one time and said they'd had a 104 mpg gust that picked their horse trailer up and sat it down several feet away.
Margarita wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:27 am
Morning. Sun is shining. 39 degrees, 20 mph wind. Last night, we had steady winds just under 50 mph and gusts up around 70 mph.
Tom lives at the south end of Big Horn Basin which is ringed by mountains. That area tends to get less wind in the winter and higher temperatures in the summer than Natrona County. My house, as I've probably mentioned before, is on the side of one of the ridges that comes off Casper Mountain. The ridge is perfectly angled to catch the prevailing wind out of the southwest. The wind we get here is considerably higher than what we used to get when we lived in town just a couple of miles away. Ten years ago, my son lived at the northwest end of Big Horn Basin on a ranch near Clark. They had wind that made ours look like gentle zephyrs. He called one time and said they'd had a 104 mpg gust that picked their horse trailer up and sat it down several feet away.
When we did a drive about in Wyoming one January to scout out small Wyoming towns to move to one January with the SIL, they both loved Thermopolis, I told them it gets into the 90's and sometimes into the 100's in the summer here. The few times I rode through in the beginning of August is the temperatures I remembered, that kind of went over their heads / didn't hear that. The wife doesn't like hot but the SIL loves the heat.
And that January it was in the high 20's low 30's here, but once we got out of the Wind River Canyon on the way to Shoshoni and then on to Evanston for the night it remained -10°f the whole way.
Morning everyone.
Ride Free, Ride Hard 
