Warmest Winter In 135 Years Of Weather Records For Wyoming; Snowpack Below Avg At Altitude, At Record Lows Elsewhere
From Lander to Sheridan, Laramie to Evanston and almost everywhere in between, the 2025-26 winter officially goes down as the warmest winter since recordkeeping began in the 19th century.
The December-through-February period — known as the meteorological winter — set new high marks for average low temperature, average temperature overall and average high temperatures. Record heat across the season was recorded where climate stations were relatively new. And thermometers also climbed higher than ever before, where daily highs and lows have been recorded for 135 years, which is the case in Lander.
Lander’s three-month average maximum temperature was 47.7 degrees; its average overall was 34.6 degrees and the average minimum was 21.6 degrees. Each set the new all-time high mark, surpassing the historically warm winter of 1933-’34, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Adam Dziewaltowski. “That was one of the worst years for the Dust Bowl,” Dziewaltowski told WyoFile. “So it’s not good company.”
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Lower-elevation areas in particular were unseasonably warm. Most in Wyoming were more than 10 degrees above average. Mountainous areas, especially in the northwest, weren’t as divergently hot — and the high-elevation snowpack in a handful of river basins is even near average. But down low, it was a completely different story. Lander, for example, sits in the Wind River Basin, where the snowpack on Monday was 103% of the long-term median. But at the climate station, located at the 5,589-foot-elevation Hunt Field airport, just 8.2 inches of snowfall was recorded over the three winter months — the least ever, and just 16% of the average in-town snowfall of 52.9 inches, Dziewaltowski said.
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https://wyofile.com/wyoming-just-wrapped-up-its-warmest-winter-ever-surpassing-dust-bowl-records/