Bismarck, ND - No Below-Zero Days So Far This Winter

[hatrack]

EDIT

n Bismarck, the temperature at midnight Friday was 30 degrees, and it fell slowly throughout the day. The weather service predicted a low of 11 degrees for Friday night. If that held, it would mean there still hasn't been a below-zero temperature in Bismarck this year. Before this winter, there hadn't been a January without a below-zero day on record. The weather service began keeping score in 1875.

The skies are supposed to clear today, with temperatures climbing to about 30 degrees. Tonight is expected to be blustery, with winds out of the northwest at between 14 and 20 mph. Sunday should be the warmest day in the immediate forecast, at about 32 degrees. After that the high temperatures are expected to decrease. The weather service predicts a high on Monday of 30. Tuesday should get to about 28 degrees, Wednesday to 22 degrees and Thursday to 16.

EDIT/END

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2006/02/11/news/local/109883.txt

[Canuckistanian]

1. Wow. And I used to live in Winnipeg.

We just went to subzero for only the 3rd time this winter here in Ottawa. We've had 4 thaws since Xmas.

[rurallib]

2. I live in Iowa

Warmest January on record last month - many NIGHTS above 32. We had an incredibly hot summer and a warm fall. We had a brief cold spell in early December but since then temps have been mostly in the 40s with some 60 degree days in January. Snowfall has been sparse. We did however get more rain in January than we did all last summer. It's like we've moved to Arkansas.

[NickB79]

3. Similar weather here in MN

Though we did have a below-zero cold snap in early December that put temps down to -10F one night, but then we had temps in the upper 40's through most of January. The lack of snow on the ground is pitiful.

Ice fishing, once THE thing to do here in the land of 10,000 lakes in the winter, has pretty much ground to a halt because the lakes simply are too dangerous to go out onto anymore. 5 miles from our apartment, 6 cars and trucks went through the ice IN ONE DAY! Ice houses are disappearing as they just sink through. There is no snowmobiling, once another big Minnesota moneymaker. People hitch up their trailers and drive 200 miles north to the MN/Canada border to find enough snow to drive their snowmobiles.

[JohnWxy]

4. No, no . this is just all happening in imaginations and the machinations

of researchers seeking grants. i know, cuzz Michael Chrichton says so!