Proudly Serving the Hulet and Devils Tower Community
Proudly Serving the Hulet and Devils Tower Community
Last weekend reminded everybody that it is winter time. Coming off of 50° weather, the weekend brought in snow and temperatures in the single digits for the area. Hulett received on average about 6 to 8 inches of snow.
The county is dusted with snow as 2025 begins – a marked change from last year, which saw tempera-ture records broken and less precipitation than usual.
According to the Rapid City Weather Forecast Office, the region as a whole saw only around 80% of its usual snow and rain for the year. Only April and August brought above-average precipitation.
Though the year began chilly, with temperatures around four degrees below average, the situation flipped in February and temperature readings came in around eight degrees higher than average.
Spring and summer brought temperatures right around the average, but September, October and De-cember were all around six or seven degrees higher.
For the year as a whole, temperatures were an estimated 2.5 degrees above average across the office's territory, which covers northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota.
A number of locations achieved top ten records. The Devils Tower weather station recorded the warm-est September since records began in 1959, with an average temperature of 65.2 degrees F.
The previous record was 64.1 degrees F in 1990.
The Devils Tower station also recorded a match for the warmest December on record. The 29.9 degrees F average matched the record from 1980.
Devils Tower was one of 20 stations in the region to report the warmest September on record and one of two to report the warmest December. Four stations reported the warmest October.
Records began in different years for each station, some dating back to the nineteenth century. The earli-est comes from Camp Crook in 1893.
Overall, 2025 was the fourth warmest year on record for the Devils Tower station with an average of 46.7 degrees F. The record is 48.3 degrees F from 1981.
Across the region, 15 stations reported top ten years for warmth, with Rapid City Regional Airport matching its warmest year since records began in 1942. The 50.4 degrees F average matched the previ-ous record from 2012.
At the other end of the scale, Devils Tower reported the second lowest annual snowfall since its records began in 1959. The station reported 20.2 inches of snow, which is three inches more than the record of 17.1 inches in 1991-2.
This year has begun a little more promisingly, with snowfall across the weekend. In Crook County, 3 inches are reported to have fallen southwest of Beulah, 2.5 inches near Alva and 1.6 inches in Sundance.
