Winter Storm Watches Issued For SE Wyoming Mountains For Midweek
The Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service has issued winter storm watches for the Sierra Madre and Snowy Range Mountains for Wednesday through Friday.
But the agency also says the watches could be upgraded into warnings and expanded as the week continues.
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The weather service posted the following statement on Monday morning: Winter Storm Watches have been issued for the Snowy Range and South Laramie Range beginning Wednesday morning. Periods of rain and snowfall are expected across southeast WY and western NE Tuesday morning through Friday with the most impacts being Wednesday and Thursday. The area with the most travel impacts expected is I-80 between Cheyenne and Elk Mountain in terms of snowfall totals and blowing snow. Our confidence in these snowfall totals is still medium as there are a lot of unknowns, but as the system moves into our region today and tomorrow, we should hav