We already experienced some severe weather this week and there will be additional chances in the next several days. I completely understand why severe weather is disliked. It causes damage and even deaths. Yet, at the same time, severe thunderstorms bring a huge percentage of our yearly precipitation. The severe weather is usually isolated, granted,… Read more Severe Season
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Spray Time
June is traditionally a big spray month. When it comes to spraying, one of the major concerns is spray drift. The chemicals moving to off target location. Besides wind, the biggest contributor to spray drift is inversions. An inversion is when the lowest levels of the atmosphere are cooler than the air above it. Meaning,… Read more Spray Time
A Swing and a Miss
As we were in the middle of the cold snap a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in that a warmup is coming, but it looked like another push of Arctic Air toward the end of the month. Albeit, not as cold as what we were experiencing at the time. This colder air this weekend… Read more A Swing and a Miss
The Pattern Change
It still appears that mainly eastern North Dakota and much of Minnesota, both the northern and southern portions of the state will record some light snow on Saturday. The heavier precipitation (rain/snow) should be in the southern portion of Minnesota. There will be another storm toward the middle of next week and although that is… Read more The Pattern Change
Back to Average
Minimums this morning were much closer to seasonal averages. The boundary between the +10s and -0s/-10s served as a focusing area for light snow today. Although precipitation amounts were mostly light, the snow was fluffy and ended up over 1 inch in some areas. Temperatures remaining near or slightly below average for the next few… Read more Back to Average
Bismarck has a Negative
Until this morning Bismarck officially had not recorded a low temperature below 0˚ F. The graphic below are the lows from NDAWN (North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network) stations. The -2˚ is the Mandan station, but the Bismarck Airport (KBIS) had a low of -1˚F. That was the first negative of the season and also the… Read more Bismarck has a Negative
Frost Season
Last week, many parts of northern North Dakota into northern Minnesota along and north of US Highway 2 recorded either a frost or a freeze. The weather over the next several days looks far too mild for any worries about a the first frost across southern North Dakota or west central Minnesota, but they may… Read more Frost Season
Dry Frost
This week starts off cool, but warmer air is expected in a few days. Each cold front that moves through this time of year tends to be a bit cooler than the previous cold front. Eventually come September one of the cold fronts will be in enough cool air for the first frost of the… Read more Dry Frost
Saturday Rain
There will be some rain in the area tomorrow into tomorrow night as another cold front pushes through the upper Midwest. Behind the rain, it will still be chilly on Sunday into Monday morning, but then another warm up is anticipated for next week. In other words, the overall mostly dry and mild weather pattern… Read more Saturday Rain
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?