Extremely Critical Fire Weather in New Mexico; Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Risk in Central U.S.

High winds and very dry conditions will bring extremely critical fire weather over a large part of New Mexico today. Red Flag and High Wind Warnings have been issued. Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms may produce large to very large hail and localized damaging winds late this afternoon into evening from the eastern Central Plains to the Upper Midwest. Read More >

The July 2017 climate summaries for Big Piney, Buffalo, Casper, Greybull, Lake Yellowstone, Lander, Riverton, Rock Springs, and Worland are now available online.

July 2017 was drier than normal, but was certainly wetter than July 2016. Last year, several locations only recorded a trace of precipitation for the month of July. Only a handful of sites had above normal precipitation, with Buffalo receiving almost 1.5". Despite these low totals, the area has not had many wildfires so far (thankfully). Hopefully, this will continue into August. The lack of fire activity could be partially attributed to temperatures. Although most sites were only +2.0 to +3.0 degrees above average, the region has not experienced an oppressive heat wave. In fact, the area enjoyed a plume of monsoonal moisture by the middle of the month and lasted toward the end of the month. See the links below for details for individual sites or click here for Water Year Precipitation summaries for more locations.

If you would like additional/more in-depth climate information, please refer to our Climate Page. Under the Observed Weather tab, you can find the Daily Climate Report (CLI), the Preliminary Monthly Climate Data (CF6), the Monthly Weather Summary (CLM), and the Regional Summary (RTP/STP). The Daily Climate Report will have the weather data for the day (from midnight to 1159 pm). The Monthly Climate Data will have this data for each day of the month, compiling all the daily data into one form. The Regional and State Summaries will have temperature and precipitation data for various locations across the state, updated 4 times a day.