The National Weather Service in Cheyenne will be making changes to its forecast products in southeastern Wyoming beginning October 1,  2009. The National Weather Service will be making these changes in hopes of taking into account southeastern Wyoming’s diverse topographical and climatological diversity. In a new release from The National Weather Service in Cheyenne:

The county warning area of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Cheyenne is vast in its size and topographical complexity. This complexity presented numerous difficulties to the forecast staff at the Cheyenne National Weather Service Forecast Office, who in addition to forecasting for a wide variety of climatological regimes, also have to coordinate with five adjoining forecast offices (Riverton, Rapid City, North Platte, Boulder and Grand Junction). The assurance of forecast and weather warning consistency from office to office is one of the biggest challenges that National Weather Service forecasters in Cheyenne face on a day-to-day basis.

New NWS Cheyenne Forecast Zones

For more  information go here: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/cys/2009publiczones.php