President Biden warned that the storm affecting much of the country is “serious stuff” as he prepared to be briefed Thursday in the Oval Office by the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Many motorists were left stranded in Wyoming on Dec. 21 as a massive winter 'bomb cyclone' created whiteout conditions on roads and highways.
Weather records have been kept in Casper, Wyo., since 1939. On Thursday morning, the temperature plummeted to its lowest level in those 83 years: minus-42 degrees. That surpassed the previous record of minus-41 set Dec. 21, 1990. Temperatures dropped below zero across all of Wyoming on Thursday. Most locations bottomed out between minus-20 and minus-40.
Thursday’s low of minus-42 was 70 degrees colder than the high from the day before. . On Wednesday morning, as the powerful Arctic cold front raced in, Casper’s temperature
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