Tomorrow, the Climate Prediction Center, a branch within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration related to the National Weather Service, will issue the "official" government forecast for the winter season.The primary influences are e...
The rain and snow combination on Wednesday, Oct. 10, yielded almost an inch of water here in Fargo-Moorhead, bringing the total for just the first half of October to almost 2.5 inches.
You hear it all the time. What's the wind chill? Can you imagine going through a winter without this numerical fixation? Did you know that the wind chill index came into weather reporting vogue during the early 1970s. Prior to that, we could only...
Anyone who has read the Laura Ingalls Wilder or Rose Wilder Lane stories of life on the prairies in the 1870s and 1880s has been struck by the vision of the terrible grasshopper plagues of that time. These accounts are based in fact. Huge grassho...
According to a report from the National Climate Data Center, June was the warmest on record across the contiguous United States, and the January to June period was the third warmest. The June average temperature was 71.8?F, or 3.3?F above the 20t...
The worst heat wave on record across our region was in July of 1936. It was 90 in Fargo Moorhead on July 4 that year. The following day, it was 95. The station record hottest day was July 6, 1936, when the temperature reached 114 at what was then...
The first weather in the Universe anywhere other than on Earth to be observed by humans is the Great Red Spot in the outer atmosphere of the planet, Jupiter. The Great Red Spot, which can be seen through a good telescope, is actually a hurricane-...
The other planets in our Solar System which have atmospheres also have weather, although their weather is very different from ours. Venus, the planet with the orbit nearest Earth's, has an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide and so has a runaway gr...
Fargo Moorhead has become much brighter in the three decades I have lived here. As the region has grown in population, the quantity of light in the night sky has increased greatly. Not only are there more buildings with lights, there are also mor...
The story of the attempt to rescue a scientist from the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole has generated many questions about the winter climate at the South Pole. The South Pole is much colder than the North Pole because the North Pole is ...
