Wyoming weather can be so changeable. Cheyenne to US 26 via Wheatland on I-25 was as bad as yesterday. East on US 26 twenty miles it was nearly calm.
Lots of high cirrus and lenticular clouds still in the sky. Below those clouds, as any pilot will tell you, the air is turbulent. Above? Often severe smooth.
One unpleasant part of the drive is twenty to thirty minutes of sunrise in your face. With Polaroids on, any animals on the sides are even harder to spot.
South out of Scottsbluff hit wind again. Strong, but nothing like the morning.
Back in Northern Colorado it was breezy with some good mountain wave action.
Hope you all have a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving. As usual, I'll be at my sister's. She maintains a sober house so will restrain my party animal (which disappeared decades ago).
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! We live in a beautiful and blessed place.
Despite all the challenges, we are a blessed people.
Happy Thanksgiving, WSF. And tell sisty the same thing. Y'all enjoy your meal and the following nap. No booze here either. And for the first time in history, no NFL this afternoon.
Thank you. Broncos aren't playing so doubt the TV will be on.
Happy Thanksgiving, WSF!
My wife saw her first lenticular cloud today and awestruck. She'd only seen pictures in books before.
And she flipped out at every deer we saw, and we saw 20 or 30 of them above Rist Canyon.
She will be able to see articular clouds often due to mountain waves. Think the correct term is standing alto cumulus lenticular formation.
She will get to see lots of deer. Probably bighorn sheep especially along Hwy 14. When you were in Estes Park did you see elk?
We were in Estes Park one day to see The Stanley (again.....), and we took a side trip through the Rocky Mountain National Park. We saw elk several times on that drive.
The guys who live and work up in Rist Canyon and Poudre Canyon tell me they're seeing elk right at the snow line, but rarely lower.
The first time my wife saw an elk she wanted to know "what that really big deer" was called.
Yup, that's an elk, honey.....
Hope you had a good day!
I did. My co-driver had a brutal one today (Friday).
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