Not only severe weather conditions in upper Midwest!

[imanamerican63]

A snowstorm hit southern and eastern parts of Wyoming and northern Colorado. Interstate 80 has been closed indefinitely between Rock Springs and Laramie! Over a foot of snow has fallen since late last night! No word on when the road will be open for travel!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I-80 in Wyoming is hit or miss regardless of the season.

In December of 2021, we nearly did not make it home from our 2 month road trip to California and back. Trucks were lined up for miles due to a foot of snow and strong Northerly winds.

[SheltieLover]

2. Stay safe out there!

[erronis]

3. I-80 - a great road trip! Read John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World

Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[1] It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[2]

The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978. It consists of a compilation of five books, the first four of which were previously published as Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), Rising from the Plains (1986), and Assembling California (1993), plus a final book, Crossing the Craton. A narrative table of contents provides an overview of the project, which largely consisted of a series of road journeys by McPhee across the North American continent in the company of noted geologists.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110719231902/http://www.johnmcphee.com/annals.htm

I've been caught on I-80 a few times in freak snowstorms.

[Bo Zarts]

4. I-80: The Devil's Highway

I-40: The Highway from Hell

[paleotn]

5. An unstable climate looking for a new point of stability.

It will swing wildly until we reach a new normal. A normal many of us won't like very much. 86F at our local airport this afternoon in the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River That would be toasty for us in the dog days of summer. In mid May that's a little much. High 60's, low 70's is normal this time of year but who's to say what's going to be normal going forward.

[H2O Man]

6. Yikes!

It is 90 degrees here in rural upstate NY. There is a chance of serious storms in the next 48 hours.