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Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Hunting

Trespassing bull elk

<title>🚧 Hunter Who Shot Huge Bull Elk On Public Land Accused Of Trespassing During Hunt | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Gillette hunter who says he shot the bull elk of a lifetime is facing a trespassing charge. A land manager says the hunter had to cross his private property to get to the public land where the bull was killed, and he was cited by a game warden.

Hunter Who Shot Huge Bull Elk On Public Land Accused Of Trespassing During Hunt

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Justin George

Jackson Walker

Crime & Courts

Public Safety

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<title>🚧 Asphalt Tank Catches Fire At Sinclair Refinery, Black Smoke Seen For Miles | Cowboy State Daily</title>

An asphalt tank caught fire at the Sinclair Oil Refinery in Sinclair on Saturday morning unsettling residents of Sinclair and closing part of Wyoming Highway 76. Emergency officials said the fire did not pose a threat to the refinery or town.

Asphalt Tank Catches Fire At Sinclair Refinery, Black Smoke Seen For Miles

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Don Day

Don Day Weather

It&#x2019;s not Photoshop and you&#x2019;re not on ludes (likely). 
It was just a rare cloud phenomenon that was captured outside of Sheridan, Wyoming, on Tuesday afternoon.
Cowboy State Daily reader Andrew Lindberg sent us photos of the rolling clouds and said they were known as Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, billow clouds or shear gravity clouds.
Lindberg is correct. Meteorologist Don Day said to appreciate these Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds as &#x201C;not too many people get to see them.&#x201D;
The clouds were named after Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, who studied the physics of the instability that leads to this type of cloud formation.
These cloud formations occur when two layers of air are moving at differing speeds. When the top layer moves at a faster speed than the lower, it can pick up the top the clouds and produce these wave-like shapes.
The <a href="https://scied.ucar.edu/image/kelvin-helmholtz-clouds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Center for Science Education</a> puts it another way: &#x201C;After wind blows up and over a barrier, like a mountain, the air continues flowing through the atmosphere in a wavelike pattern. Complex evaporation and condensation patterns create the capped tops and cloudless troughs of the waves.&#x201D;
However they are explained, it&#x2019;s great to see. And thanks to Andrew Lindberg for sending them our way.
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<title>🚧 Let’s Go Surfing In Sheridan: Photographer Captures Rare Cloud Phenomenon | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Photographers in Sheridan on Tuesday captured a rare cloud phenomenon which looked like breaking waves over the Bighorn Mountains.

Let’s Go Surfing In Sheridan: Photographer Captures Rare Cloud Phenomenon

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