Lander breaks 102-year-old record high

WORLAND — A few western cities set records in Wyoming on Thanksgiving Day but Worland was not one of them.

Lander broke a 102-year-old record with a high of 68 Thursday, breaking the 1915 record of 65, according to the National Weather Service office in Riverton.

Riverton set a record of 62, breaking the old record of 57.

Buffalo also set a record of 65, breaking a 2006 record of 60.

Worland had a high of 55, 8 degrees cooler than the record of 63 set in 1988.

Thermopolis had a high of 68. According to the NWS, official records are not kept in Thermopolis.

There were also some high wind gusts that struck on Thanksgiving Day and Friday morning that moved a Pacific cold front in. According to NWS data, Clark recorded one gust of hurricane strength at 109 mph.

Thermopolis had winds as high as 41 mph Friday morning about 3 a.m. Worland had gusts Friday morning up to 36 mph.

Gusts of up to 76, 18 miles northwest of Buffalo were recorded. Eight miles north of Meeteetse there were winds as high as 63 mph.

Temperatures will drop today but will still be above normal with highs near 48 for Worland, according to the NWS. Tuesday temperatures should drop back down into the normal range, with highs near 40.

According to NWS data, average temperatures at this time of year are high 30s to low 40s. The average lows are in the mid teens between 13-15 degrees.

The cold front did bring some trace precipitation Friday morning. For November, Worland has received .68 inches of precipitation, well above the .29-inch average, however, last year Worland received .96 inches of precipitation for the month of November through Nov. 24.

To date, Worland is above average in precipitation at 8.48 inches with the average at 7.28 inches. Last year at this time, Worland had received 9.75 inches of precipitation, according to data provided to the NWS from the Worland Municipal Airport weather station.