Record highs, and rrecord high lows, continue in Grand Forks
March 18, 2012 at 6:59 pm in Grand Forks Herald
The record-high temperatures recently across North Dakota continued Sunday at some sites, including a record 74 degrees at the Grand Forks International Airport, according to the National Weather Service. Continue Reading
Published: Dec 8, 2011
It’s going to be exceptionally cold in the Northern Plains from January through March, says Leon Osborne, a climatologist and president of Meridian Environmental Technologies, a private weather forecasting service.
“We will likely see some 30 to 40 year low temperature record lows,” he says.
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Why won’t the Herald let us comment on the former Priest from Middle River?
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Because he was a Democrat.
We dont do negative articles on Democrats here.
If he were a Republican they would have funded his extradition fee and posted it all on the front page.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Give it a rest. I believe pedophilia is an equal opportunity kind of thing…
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On a serious note: This is a very well written article.
While the warm weather is very enjoyable and people like myself are just itchin to get out and get started on Spring projects, we do need to keep in mind that this could flip overnight.
Dont be in a rush to remove the winter survival kit from your car just yet, you never know what could hit us in a couple of weeks.
But i will keep my fingers crossed that it stays nice and i will enjoy the weather while we can.
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It’s unlikely we’ll remain this far above average for an extended period of time, but I wouldn’t be too worried about having the emergency kit in the car either. We’re battling climatology, and with the snowpack long gone, it will be hard to get temperatures much below average. The cold is bottled up far north, and at this point, I don’t see anything that can make its way down to us in the near future (a week or two).
At this point, worst case scenario would be a a snow storm (and we’re talking end March, into April) that brings some snow for a day or two before it melts. I don’t see any evidence for this in our current models, but anything is possible beyond a week or two.
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Vey nice to know. Thanks
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We stayed in a hotel in the Twin Cities last night. Of course as my luck goes…we got the room with a faulty AC unit. Even with the window open all night it never cooled down. Who would have thought that would be a concern in March?
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Hey, don’t complain too much about that. The heat in my apartment complex is controlled by my landlord (and it’s on almost all the time from October-April), and apparently he hasn’t received the memo that it almost hit 80 here in Fargo the other day. The air conditioners haven’t been readied for use yet, so they are useless and every window has a fan in it, yet it is still 85 in my apartment. Took HOURS to fall asleep last night.
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Yeah, and my buddy that moved out to Yacolt Washington, where “it never snows” sent me an email today that said, “snowing cats and dogs here again! Third time this week!”
Well….
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I just left Fleet Farms in Alexandria and it was raining pretty good. You wouldn’t have happened to be the old guy ahead of me in line by chance? heh heh
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Nope, ’tweren’t me!
I was the old fart in the mall lot with the black blinders on, having just come from the eyeball clinic. I would say it was because I was becoming worried about being a hazard on the highway, but in reality, it was because it dawned on me that paying for HDTV was stupid if my eyes weren’t good enough to appreciate it.
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I had to switch my system from heat to A/C almost 2 months ahead of normal.
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It’s one thing for a 100-year record to fall, but it’s another for that to happen day after day in multiple locations. This is what climate change looks like. Next year it might be exceedingly low temps that break records the other way. The point is, things are changing. And 99.9% of scientists agree that those changes are due to human activities.
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You’re right realist. What people don’t understand is that the overnight high lows are the key MMGW evidence. IOW the day’s heat can’t escape beyond the top of the Troposphere, about 35,000 up( 7 miles). CO2 only is only accumulating in the Troposphere & that is where the heating is taking place. Above 35,000 ft. the temperature stays cool. The infrared daytime heat cannot penetrate the accumulated CO2 & return to space as it did before we reached the 390 parts per million in the last 200 yrs. of man’s activity.
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What caused record lows in this area only 16 short years ago-Feb 1996? New state low in MN of -60 degrees. A lot of daytime high lows crushed backed then like highs of -25. It’s weather in this area and records fall especially when only 120 years of records. This is great, enjoy it!!
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So chins what about the Troposphere C02?
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That’s right, MMGW predicts greater extremes including record lows. I was in Hibbing the morning of the record -60 & my car started immediately without being plugged in because I had put Mobil 1 synthetic in it the day before in anticipation of 60 below.
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So was it global warming in 1936 in ND when the all time state low was set in Feb of -60 and only five months later in July the all time high was set at 121??
No, we have extreme weather here. Over a 180 degree difference in five months in 1936.
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Study July 1936 in the midwest. Almost every record in the first ten days are extreme all time highs.
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Chins, MMGW was discovered in the 1890s so yes 1936 extremes probably had something to do with MMGW.
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When was Global Cooling discovered? And Climate Change?
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Climate change was discovered when MMGW was as I said in the 1890s, they just didn’t call it that. Global cooling was discovered in the 70s & was small # of scientists that pushed & has been since dismissed as bad science. It is true that a new ice age should be beginning but it is being delayed by about 1000 yrs. by MMGW.
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Oh, the Dustbowl years.
Care to compare them to the mini-Ice Age, chinny?
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I not the one calling “party cloudy and a chance of showers” global warming…
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“Party cloudy” would sum it up pretty well.
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Yes, for me, mostly cloudy or thick fog…
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