This region gets very used to strong wind from the north or northwest this time of year. Many farms are situated with trees to the north and west of the house and buildings to protect themselves from that standard wind direction. Today is an example that you can get a strong south wind in the… Read more Windathon Continues
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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
Winter Precip So Far
Precipitation from the weekend’s storm averaged between a quarter and a half an inch. Oddly, even though some areas around Grand Forks got twice the amount of snow that Fargo did, the water content in the snow was very similar. Grand Forks just had a fluffier snow than what occurred around Fargo. December through February,… Read more Winter Precip So Far
NDAWN Snow Depth
NDAWN, the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network started testing snow depth sensors at some of their stations last winter. Although not all installed yet, NDAWN should have 19 stations with snow depth sensors before real winter hits the area. These snow depth sensors measure snow depth by using sound waves. In that way it can… Read more NDAWN Snow Depth
Old Winters
This is the time of year that the Old Farmer’s Almanac comes out with their winter forecast. Someone shared their forecast with me earlier this week. It was an odd forecast mentioning the words numb and shoveling. A forecast like that can’t be wrong, as the northern plains gets snow and cold weather every year. … Read more Old Winters
La Nina Chatter
If I had a dollar for everyone that asked me about La Nina in the past week, no I wouldn’t be rich, but I would probably have enough to take myself out for a decent meal. In other words, I’ve been asked a couple of dozen times, not a lot, but still enough that what… Read more La Nina Chatter
In Search of Snow
It was a winter without much snow and as I mentioned in this segment earlier this week, it was also a winter when the biggest snow event for many of us occurred in October. Although this winter seemed low on snow and it was certainly below average, in Fargo for example our snow total is… Read more In Search of Snow
Corn Syrup
The Arctic air masses, like the one currently over the region and will get reinforced in the coming days from a meteorological perspective are always fascinating to watch. I like to think of arctic air being so cold and in turn dense somewhat acting like corn syrup. It tends to move slowly with different locations… Read more Corn Syrup
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
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