There have been ten consecutive days of colder-than-average temperatures in Fargo-Moorhead. Depending on how the warming goes today, this may or may not be the eleventh.
Either way, warmer weather tomorrow will break the streak. This is the longest streak of continuously colder-than-average weather since November 2014. For most of the past two years, our weather in the Fargo Moorhead area has been warmer than the long-term average.
In fact, over the previous 24 months, 503 of the 730 days have been warmer than average. That is about 70 percent.
Global Warming/Climate Change is, of course, a part of the reason for the warmth. But the main reason these past two years is a large region of warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures along the West Coast and across the North Pacific into the Arctic Ocean, which has been warming the weather systems coming our way. Much of the North Pacific surface water has cooled this fall.
