Double Four Rch, WY Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Double Four Rch's primary NOAA station, DOUBLE FOUR RCH.
The climate verdict for Double Four Rch
Dryness leads the climate profile for Double Four Rch, Wyoming, with 15.5 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 44°F. At 34/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 2% of scores.
- 44°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.5"
- annual precipitation · 66" snow
- 99 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Double Four Rch: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00482680 · Double Four Rch, WY 44°F mean · 15.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #1,166
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Great Sand Dune…
- PRCP-DRY 15.5"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,638 HDD
- STN-1 USC00482680
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, CO (+ 0.1 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every WY station list.
- Hot Loa, UT 45°F
- Near Great Sand Dune…, CO 45°F
- Double Four Rch (this station) 44°F
- Cold Beaver Canyon P…, UT 44°F
- Near Lowman, ID 44°F
Double Four Rch sits in Wyoming, the #5 coldest U.S. state at 43.3°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Double Four Rch
Double Four Rch: 14/100 · grade F
Double Four Rch publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Double Four Rch, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.5 in · 19.5 from 35 in | 30/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.4°F · 23.1° from 67.5°F | 18/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 65.8 inches/year | 12/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 215 calendar days | 7/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 99 days/year | 0/100 · F |
Double Four Rch · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Double Four Rch's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 65.9°F
- Coldest month
- 26.8°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Double Four Rch sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Double Four Rch's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 83%
- Among 6,861 stations, Double Four Rch sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 81%
- Double Four Rch's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 32nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Double Four Rch compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Double Four Rch's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
34 2nd percentile score exceeds 2% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.3" | 6.7" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 40°F (4°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 0.7" | 8.6" | 26.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 49°F (10°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.9" | 7.1" | 26.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 2.1" | 13.8" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 2.8" | 2.6" | 9.9 | 0.0 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 2.4" | 0.1" | 2.0 | 0.8 |
| July | 84°F (29°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 6.7 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.8 | 3.3 |
| September | 74°F (24°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 1.5" | 1.8" | 9.1 | 1.0 |
| October | 60°F (15°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 1.0" | 4.9" | 21.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (8°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 0.9" | 11.8" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.4" | 8.4" | 28.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 85°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 215 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 16°F near February 9.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 4, then returns to freezing around October 3, covering 215 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is June 2, when 38% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 12 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 78 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 5 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Double Four Rch.
Where Double Four Rch Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 215 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 37°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Double Four Rch earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 6.7"
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.6"
4.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.1"
5.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.8"
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.6"
10.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
10.5 days with precipitation
8.0 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.8"
5.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.9"
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.8"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.4"
3.9 days with precipitation
Double Four Rch spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 31% of the annual total and December through February 9%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Double Four Rch has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.1°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 2.8" and January 0.3". The three wettest months together take 47% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Double Four Rch is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 78 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 21% of the calendar, and they carry 15.5" between them. At roughly 0.20 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is June at about 11 wet days; the driest is December at about 4.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Winter brings real snow to Double Four Rch
Double Four Rch averages 65.8 inches of snowfall a year, with April the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 28 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 65.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 28 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 43% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
99 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,638
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
150
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WY closest to Double Four Rch on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (44°F here).
- Baker, MT 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Bellemont, AZ 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Bridgeport, CA 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Challis, ID 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Mccammon, ID 15.5" · 0.0" off
- Lindrith, NM 15.5" · 0.0" off
- Melstone, MT 15.5" · 0.0" off
- Arco, ID 15.5" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Double Four Rch
heating led · dry · mid swing
Double Four Rch's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,638 annual heating degree days against 150 for cooling. Its 39.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 99 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Double Four Rch coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 27°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Double Four Rch typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Double Four Rch snow peak
April
Double Four Rch averages 65.8 inches of snow a year, with April the snowiest month on the normals.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Double Four Rch's primary station: DOUBLE FOUR RCH (USC00482680). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Double Four Rch; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Double Four Rch comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.