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While the calendar may say there’s less than 2 weeks to go until the end of winter, the weather experts say this season is one for the record books.
The National Weather Service in Billings, Montana says from the beginning of December 2025 to the end of February 2026, which is called the meteorological winter, the average temperature in the Sheridan area, according to readings from the Sheridan County Airport, was 33 degrees Fahrenheit.
That’s 8.2 degrees warmer than normal and is the warmest winter on record, since records started being kept in 1907.
The old average record was 32.2 degrees that was set in the winter of 1991 and 1992.
Daily high temperature records during this past winter were broken twice and tied 3 times.
The National Weather Service also says the Sheridan area had 44 days this winter, where the high temperature was at least 50 degrees, and 20 days where the high temperature was at least 60 degrees.
Both of those are new records, beating the old records of 39 and 12 respectively, that were both set in the winter of 2023 and 2024.
Meteorologist William McKeown-Robbie with the National Weather Service in Billings, says the directional air movement during the winter and the geography within Sheridan County contributed to the warmth.
“We’ve been kind of stuck in a westerly flow aloft for most of winter and when you get that flow over the mountains, which descends, it both warms and dries, so because we had less of that northwesterly flow bringing in that cold air and more of the straight westerly flow, it’s been in general warmer.”
The National Weather Service Office in Riverton says Buffalo also had its warmest winter on record, with an average temperature of 34 degrees.
Records there have been kept since 1998.
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Last modified: March 9, 2026