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1 day ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
Very few people are all smiles before sunrise. But if they’re willing to wake up and look up before dawn Friday, they’ll see a rare smiling face in the eastern sky. The planets Venus and Saturn will be aligned with the crescent moon in a way that makes a smiling face. It could put a smile on anyone’s face, assuming they’re willing to wake up at 5 a.m. to see it.
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3 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
There’s a good chance Wyoming will see the Northern Lights on Tuesday evening. The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Space Weather Prediction Center is monitoring activity from the latest surge of solar energy lighting up the night skies this week. Several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emanated from the sun over the last week. When these CMEs reach Earth and interact with its atmosphere, they manifest as aurora borealis, also known as the Northern Lights.
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3 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
When it comes to Wyoming’s weather, expect the unexpected. However, there are certain truisms that new residents should learn sooner rather than later. Several days of unseasonably warm weather last week were followed by a chaotic cold front that dropped temperatures over 50 degrees and dumped several inches of snow across Wyoming. It was the kind of spring storm that reminds us winter isn’t over until it’s over.
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4 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
David Porter has decided it’s time to sell the family vehicle, although theirs is more unique than most. It's less of a traditional family station wagon or van and more of an off-road-capable but still luxurious limousine — a preposterous pinnacle of opulence for a Wyoming ranch that incredibly and improbably exists. "This combo is one of one ever built," Porter told Cowboy State Daily.
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5 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
There’s a lot of water in Yellowstone National Park, most of it in Yellowstone Lake. It’s the biggest lake in the park and the largest freshwater lake in North America above 7,000 feet in elevation. Then there’s Shoshone Lake, the park’s second-largest, which isn’t far from some of the park’s most popular spots. It’s 5 miles from the West Thumb Geyser Basin and the western shore of Yellowstone Lake and only 2 miles from some sections of the Grand Loop Road.
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5 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
It’s baseball season, and Mother Nature decided to celebrate by dropping baseball-sized hail across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Severe thunderstorms swept across the region on Thursday night, pummeling communities with massive hail pellets. Hurricane-force winds and a few tornadoes touched down to exacerbate the severity of these storms, causing tremendous property damage. Hail is one of the hazards of living in the Great Plains, but this week’s storms were severe even by those standards.
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5 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
Mr. George Clayton Johnson. Storyteller. A middle school dropout who escaped lonely life in a cold, barren little town only to become one of the most imaginative minds of Tinseltown. He was inspired by visionaries and inspired others to become visionaries. He traveled the world and led countless millions to new worlds.
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6 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
Winter thunderstorms aren’t uncommon in Wyoming in April and May, but they shouldn't be underestimated. They can quickly turn a placid day into blizzard conditions with heavy snow, lightning and thunder. Several short, but severe, winter thunderstorms contributed to the chaos that unfolded across Interstate 80 on Thursday and Friday. When the latest winter weather system caused several winter thunderstorms to form, creating hazardous driving conditions that forced most of I-80 to shut down.
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1 week ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
Squatters staying in a vacant hotel in Evanston, Wyoming, are suspected of starting a fire Tuesday in the vacant Hillcrest Motel. Police report the owner of the motel has been trying to renovate it, but has been having problems evicting squatters. Squatters staying in a vacant hotel in Evanston, Wyoming, are suspected of starting a fire Tuesday in the vacant Hillcrest Motel on Harrison Drive.
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1 week ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Andrew Rossi
Steamboat Geyser, the tallest active geyser in the world, erupted at 11:05 a.m. Monday in Yellowstone National Park. It was the geyser’s second eruption of 2025 and 69 days since its last eruption on Feb. 3. After entering an extremely active period, with over 20 eruptions each year between 2018 and 2021, Steamboat’s eruptive frequency has steadily decreased over the last four years. Scientists believed the geyser was slowly entering another period of extended dormancy, as it has in the past.
