This past August was so hot, it will be in the record books for some time.
The National Weather Service in Billings, Montana, says the average temperature in the Sheridan area for the month of August was 73.6 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the 3rd hottest August on record.
That average temperature is 4.5 degrees warmer than normal for the month of August.
Shawn Palmquist from the National Weather Service explains what happened.
Shawn Palmquist
“Just a very persistent ridge of high pressure over the region, so that brought well above normal temperatures and dry conditions overall as well. It parked itself right over much of the Rockies and actually most of the western US, so not just Sheridan but most of Wyoming, Montana and areas west had one of their warmest August on record.”
Palmquist adds the only 2 years that had an August with a higher average temperature than this year, was 1983 at 77.7 degrees and 2003 at 74.1 degrees.
According to National Weather Service records, if the high temperature in the Sheridan area on Wednesday (September 7th) is greater than 100 degrees, not only would it be only 6th time in recorded history that a day in September had a 100-plus degree high temperature day, it would also be latest day in the calendar year that a 100-plus degree high temperature day has been recorded.
Before this year, the latest day in the calendar year where the high temperature was greater than 100 degrees, was on September 5th of 2020, when the high temperature was 103 degrees.
Click here to see daily record high and low temperatures for Sheridan.
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Last modified: September 7, 2022