Sheridan Area Experiences 3rd Hottest October On Record In 2024

One month after the Sheridan area experienced the hottest September on record, October was not far behind in the record books.

The National Weather Service in Billings, Montana, says the average temperature in the Sheridan area for the month of October was 53.1 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the 3rd hottest October on record.

The only 2 years that had a hotter October was in 1944, when the average was 53.5 degrees and in 1963 when the average was 54.6 degrees.

This year’s October average temperature was 7.7 degrees above normal.

Nick Vertz with the National Weather Service Office in Billings, says a high pressure ridge parked itself over the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region in September and some of October.

He adds sometimes the system couldn’t move, because of heavy storm activity elsewhere.

“A blockage where hurricanes occurring over the far southeast, were kind of keeping that ridge hovering over us and making it harder for it to move off into the east, which is what they would normally do, kind of a factor into it, but otherwise just sometimes weather just does its own thing and just tends to sit over us and sometimes it just wants to not move and stick around.”

Vertz says temperatures and precipitation numbers for November should be around normal.