Winter in Wyoming

Watching videos of wildlife is fascinating. The animals don't know you're there and you can see how they go about their normal business.

We've all hear of Bison Jams during the summer tourist season in Wyoming, seems it also happens during the winter.

Here's a frigid look back at some of the coldest days in the history of the Cowboy State.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh. Last week, Casper resident Shannon Ruiz posted a funny clip on YouTube which sums up the frustration of Wyoming winters.

"There is a case to make that Wyoming could be even higher up the list," the author admits in the understatement of the year.

Forecasters predict an "arctic outbreak" will cause exceptionally cold temperatures across most of the country, with the north-central plains baring the brunt of the late-winter freeze.

If you don't like the weather in Wyoming, just wait a few minutes and it will change. Take, for example, last Friday when the temperature near Cheyenne was 48 degrees at 1:05 p.m. By 2 p.m., it was 13.

Here's a frigid fact: four of the ten coldest temperatures ever recorded in the continental United States were here in Wyoming.

If you don't like the weather in Wyoming, just wait for a few minutes and it will change. Last week, the Cowboy State was colder than Antarctica. This week, Wyoming was actually warmer than parts of the Sahara Desert.

How cold was the Cowboy State this week? Somewhere in Wyoming, that one guy who always wears shorts actually put on pants.