Cold and Snowy Weather Expected for Sunday Through Monday
Very cold temperatures will affect southeast Wyoming and the western Nebraska panhandle Sunday afternoon through Tuesday morning with snow Sunday afternoon through Monday. This wintry weather will be caused by an arctic front moving over the region from Canada and a Pacific storm system that will be centered over the western part of the nation Sunday through Monday. The arctic front will move into east central Wyoming and the northern panhandle by midday Sunday and through the rest of southeast Wyoming and the western Nebraska panhandle by early Sunday evening. Behind the front will be much colder temperatures with highs for Monday mainly in the single digits at best. North winds will gust to 35 MPH for several hours after the frontal passage.
Snow will develop behind the cold front and continue through Monday in the surface upslope wind flow. A Winter Storm Watch has been posted for much of south central and east central Wyoming and the northern Nebraska panhandle for late Sunday afternoon through Monday. At this time, expected snowfall amounts are from 6 to 10 inches in the lower elevations and Laramie Range parts of the Watch area witrh 10 to 16 inches for the Snowy and Sierra Madre Ranges. The snow will be heavy at times. Over the rest of the region, the amounts will be from 3 to 8 inches, with the lighter accumulations expected over the far southern part of the panhandle. The snow will taper off and end over the region on Monday night, with lows then dropping to below zero Monday night and Tuesday morning.
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