Weather update

Saturday
Well the morning started with pouring rain, but the weather stations were putting out a weather warning - over an inch of rain today, winds up to 40 m.p.h. tonight, between 10-18" of snow tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures down to 26deg F.
Horror of horrors I have, or rather the rain has, found a small leak at the top of one of the walls of the trailer, so we hope that it will not be anything too serious when we investigate it after this storm.
We set out to go to town before the weather worsened, Sally got her hair done in JC Penney's Salon and had a great time chatting away with her hairdresser, Mary Ellen, who came from just south of Knoxville, TN. While I drove off to Albertson's to stock up on supplies.
When I picked Sally up at about 12.30 and it was still raining solidly. We popped into Walmart to pick up the last of the food (cereals and cans are half the price of Albertson's, but their Deli' meats are not as good), by the time we came out there was an inch of snow on the car - the snow had come early! So we abandoned our plan to have lunch in Applebee's and drove straight back to the trailer to sit and watch the snow fall.
It stopped snowing about 5.00, with only a couple of inches on the ground. About 7.00 the wind started up, the trailer is shaking a bit. Every now and then I could hear a noise like a pebble being thrown on the roof. Went out to have a look - icicles were forming on the rolled up awning and the wind was breaking them off and blowing them against the side of the trailer.

It is now 8.00 and hasn't snowed again, though we expect the main bout of snow to fall overnight, starting in about an hour, so we shall see. Outside temperature is showing 25.5deg F.
Although it is windy, it is not as windy as predicted, so perhaps we won't get as much snow as predicted.
Sunday
We awoke with some trepidation, only to find that there had been only a little bit of snow added and the wind had calmed down, although it had warmed up to 25deg F we still preferred to stay inside with our two electric fires on. We will stay on here until tomorrow.

Looking at the radar pics it seems that the bulk of the moisture passed to the East of us, dropping as rain on the lower ground.
Sunday Evening
Well it looks like the worst is over, the temperature did just get up to freezing and we survived. It did mean that we had a good excuse for sitting and doing absolutely nothing for a day, which can't be bad.
Here is the government weather warning issued on Saturday:

 Central Laramie County Severe Watches & WarningsNOAA Weather Radio

Winter Storm Warning

Statement as of 6:24 PM MDT on May 09, 2015

... Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 6 PM MDT Sunday... 

* timing... periods of moderate to heavy snow will continue tonight
  through much of Sunday.

* Total snow accumulations... 10 to 18 inches. Locally higher 
  amounts are possible... especially along the Pine Ridge. 

* Winds/visibility... north to northeast 20 to 30 mph with gusts
  to 40 mph. Visibility will be significantly reduced in falling
  and blowing snow.

* Impacts... extremely dangerous or impossible travel with heavy 
  snow and reduced visibility likely. Roads will be slick and 
  snow covered. In addition... the heavy snow may result in 
  downed tree branches... with could lead to scattered power 
  outages. 

Precautionary/preparedness actions... 

A Winter Storm Warning for heavy snow means severe winter weather
conditions are expected or occurring.  Significant amounts of
snow are forecast that will make travel dangerous. Only travel in
an emergency. If you must travel... keep an extra flashlight... 
food... and water in your vehicle in case of an emergency.