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Heat in Southwest Big Horn Basin, Wyoming

Heat June 11, 2021 – June 17, 2021 · Southwest Big Horn Basin, Wyoming

What the National Weather Service wrote

The hottest temperature recorded during the heatwave was 104 degrees on June 15th.

The wider storm

A strong ridge parked over the northern Rockies and brought very hot temperatures to much of western and central Wyoming. All of the lower elevations saw high temperatures 90 degrees or above with many high temperatures over 100 in the lower elevations East of the Continental Divide. The Greybull and Johnson County airports tied their all time record highs of 108 and 104 degrees respectively, on June 15th. The high of 106 at the Worland airport on June 15th missed the all time record high by 1 degree.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 964949. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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