If you live in Fargo, we haven’t even hit 40 degrees yet this year officially at the airport. If you look back through the records, there has only been a handful of years that haven’t hit 40 degrees to this point in a year. Our average first 50 degree reading will be occurring soon and… Read more No Forty
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No Persistent Cold For Now
After the weekend storm, it got cold, temperatures rose up a bit yesterday and will be trending colder again, but next week we may again have a mild couple of days, then, no surprise we’ll probably get colder again. Another way of putting this is the pattern right now continues to be not all that… Read more No Persistent Cold For Now
Positive Weather
Many parts of the region went 7 to 10 days with temperatures below zero. If we use the term at or below zero, meaning we will include a temperature of 0 in the analysis then Fargo and some other locations did get into the top 10 longest such streaks on record. But it is of… Read more Positive Weather
No Records
If you live in or near Fargo, the long-term average coldest it gets each winter is -28˚. The coldest we got this past cold snap was -25˚. Close enough to be near what we average at least once each winter. Other parts of the region, especially north and west of Fargo, got to or even… Read more No Records
Texas Cold
What is happening in the southern plains, especially Texas, has been getting a lot of attention, as it should. It is cold and snow that region rarely experiences, but the key word there was rarely, it is not unprecedented. Depending on the exact area, similar weather was experienced 1989, 1983 and especially back in 1899. … Read more Texas Cold
Remembering 2019
If you’re wondering when was the last time it was this cold in February, it was just two years ago. February 2019 was the coldest second month of the year since 1979 and the 11th coldest all time in Fargo, but was ranked as the 2nd coldest February for all of North Dakota. The only… Read more Remembering 2019
Annoying Not Historic
This cold snap, albeit annoying for most people, isn’t all that unusual for our climate. We would have to go two full weeks of double digits below zero lows for example just to get into the 10 ten longest such streak on record. We would have to go 37 straight days of 0 or below… Read more Annoying Not Historic
Coldest So Far
In the past few days, the lowest temperatures measured from an NDAWN, North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network, station was -36 degrees at the Alamo, North Dakota station. The second lowest was -34 at the Fortuna, Portal and Adams stations. Although there is no denying those temperatures are extremely cold, the lack of a deeper snow… Read more Coldest So Far
The Big Change
Yesterday temperatures reached 60˚ in parts of the NDAWN Mesonet. Today, temperatures are falling with temperatures at 3:30 PM in the single digits and teens in the northwestern part of the Mesonet. High temperatures look to be staying below zero across much of the region over the weekend, with low temperatures as cold as the… Read more The Big Change
Coldest So Far
Where it was clear this morning, temperatures dropped into the -20s and even a few spots hitting the magically -30° or colder level. This should be the coldest morning in the short term as warmer air will be moving into the area as we move closer to the weekend. The weekend still looks like some… Read more Coldest So Far