Having lived all our lives in the Sooner state, we've gotten used to some strange weather phenomena. It is often said of Oklahoma just as Samuel Clemens said of New England: "If you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes." But there are some meteorological occurences that are just unheard of. Snow and ice the first week of June might be one of them. And so despite having seen snow on the mountain tops along the way here and there, on Thursday June 5, Northern Wyoming was home to a van full of startled Okies!
We continued our journey via the Cloud Peak Skyway through the Big Horn Mountains where we encountered 34 degree temps. Just west of Buffalo, WY near Cloud Peak at an elevation of 13,167 ft., the road began icing over and snow fell in wet splatters on the windshield.
It wasn't all that dangerous and it didn't last long but it made one consider if this is what this part of the world is like now, what must it be like in winter?
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