If you live in the Bismarck area you may have noticed the temperatures at the airport seem quite high. Well, the short answer is they likely are. The airport has been reading 5 to 7 degrees warmer than any other site within 50 miles of the temperature sensor at the Bismarck Airport. Even with those… Read more Bismarck Temperature Quirks
Category: Historical Events
One Hundred
Hector Int’l the, for good or bad, official climate station for Fargo, did reach 100 degrees on two consecutive days last week, both Friday and Saturday. Although, Saturday the temperature was only at 100 degrees for about 10-15 minutes looked at the detailed reports from the airport. In any case, the last time Fargo had… Read more One Hundred
Dry August
Clearly the number one topic of conversation lately has been the lack of rain. Even with the high heat from several days ago I was getting more questions about the dry weather than the high temperatures. Granted, some parts of southeastern North Dakota into west central Minnesota recorded some rain early Tuesday morning, yet many… Read more Dry August
High Heat
The weekend brought some high heat to western North Dakota, but if you were in the southern Red River Valley, not so much. My backyard for example only reached 90.5° on both Saturday and Sunday (NDAWN Fargo was 93°), whereas, western North Dakota was 100° or higher, with Williston reaching 108°. These were the highest… Read more High Heat
Warm June
Temperatures so far this month are 2 to 5 degrees warmer than average across much of North Dakota into west central Minnesota. Northwestern Minnesota is running close to average, as is far eastern Montana. Although the temperatures have been below average the past few days, with the exception of the southern Red River Valley, the… Read more Warm June
First Week of May
We are already one week into May. So far this month has been mostly warm and dry. April on the other hand was mostly cold and dry. April 2018 was the 6th coldest April on record in Fargo, it was the 8th coldest in Grand Forks and in Williston and the 9th coldest in Bismarck. … Read more First Week of May
Black Dust Blizzard
It was 95 years ago this that one of the worst blizzards in modern times was moving through the region. It started as a weak Alberta Clipper that moved along the Rocky Mountains, reformed in Colorado and moved northeast into Minnesota. Much of North Dakota had little snow cover, similar to this winter. The fierce… Read more Black Dust Blizzard
October Blizzard
A three day blizzard with massive amounts of snow and huge snow drifts in October? Your first thought is likely that which occurred in western South Dakota and southwestern North Dakota a few years ago. Perhaps the most famous October storm struck parts of this region from October 15-18, 1880. One to three feet of… Read more October Blizzard
Beginning of Dry?
I recently was reading an article online where someone was quoted saying it has been dry this summer because of the lack of rain. Yes, seriously, that was the quote. Hard to argue with that, but nevertheless an extremely obvious observation. This dry summer, as was the case in 2006, 2009 and 2012 has brought… Read more Beginning of Dry?
New NDAWN Highest Windspeed Record set at Galesburg
A new record for the highest windspeed ever recorded at an NDAWN station was observed at our station 4 miles south-south-west of Galesburg, ND (Cass County). It occurred on July 4, 2017 at 10:35:45PM local time (2017-07-05, 03:35:45 UTC). The windspeed was recorded at 94.2 mph on a R.M. Young Wind Monitor HD. This event… Read more New NDAWN Highest Windspeed Record set at Galesburg