Wyoming is a landlocked state in the western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Colorado to the south, Utah to the southwest, and Idaho to the west. The state capital and the most populous city is Cheyenne, which had an estimated population of 63,957 in 2018. Almost half of the land in Wyoming is owned by the U.S. government, leading Wyoming to rank sixth by area and fifth by proportion of a state’s land.
About Wyoming in brief
Wyoming is a landlocked state in the western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Colorado to the south, Utah to the southwest, and Idaho to the west. The state capital and the most populous city is Cheyenne, which had an estimated population of 63,957 in 2018. Almost half of the land in Wyoming is owned by the U.S. government, leading Wyoming to rank sixth by area and fifth by proportion of a state’s land. The main drivers of Wyoming’s economy are tourism and extraction of minerals such as coal, oil, natural gas, and trona. Wyoming has been a politically conservative state since the 1950s, with the Republican nominee carrying the state in every presidential election since 1968. The climate is semi-arid and continental, drier and windier than the rest of the country with greater temperature extremes. Thunderstorm activity in the state is highest during the late spring and early summer, with southeastern corner of the state the most vulnerable to tornado activity. Wyoming is one of only three states to have only one of its borders defined by straight lines. Due to legal inaccuracies during the 19th century, Wyoming’s borders have only been defined by half a mile of latitude and up to a half mile of longitude in some areas. The name Wyoming is derived from the Munsee word xwé: wam�’nk, meaning “at the big river flat’”. The state’s highest recorded temperature is 114 °F at Basin on July 12, 1900 and the lowest recorded temperature is −66 °F at Riverside on February 9, 1933.
The average annual rainfall is less than 10 inches, with lower areas in the Big Horn Basin averaging around 10–12 inches. Some mountain areas do receive a good amount of precipitation, 20 inches or more, much of it as snow, sometimes 200 inches or more annually. The southeastern plains have the most days of thunderstorm activity. The highest incidence of tornadoes is in the west part of Wyoming, where the state shows little vulnerability to tornadoes, where they tend to be small and brief, unlike those that occur farther east. The number of thunderstorms days vary across the state with the southeastern plains of thestate having the most Days of Thunderstorm Activity in the Late Spring and Early Summer. The most frequent thunderstorm days are in the late Spring and early Summer, when most of the precipitation tends to fall in thelate spring and late summer. The lowest incidence of tornado activity is found in the southeastern part of the State, where tornadoes tend to occur in the early Spring and late Summer, and the southeastern corner of the state has the most Tornado Activity Days in theLate Spring and Late Summer. Wyoming’s highest temperature is 114 °C at Basin, and its lowest temperature is −66 C at Riverside, in February 1933.
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