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    Weather Talk: A solar eclipse is memorable, even on a cloudy day
    I spent the middle hours of March 7, 1970, standing around in an open field near Perry, Fla., with my family. We had traveled there from Alabama...
    News16 hours 21 min ago
    Minesweepers being built for the French Navy are seen at the Canadian Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) in October 1918. (City of Thunder Bay Archives Accession #1991-1-360-73)
    Without a trace: 99 years after two French minesweepers vanished in a Lake Superior storm, a new search aims to solve the mystery
    DULUTH — The French sailors' spirits must have been running high as they headed out onto Lake Superior on that November day 99 years ago....
    News16 hours 29 min ago
    August 20, 2017
    Weather Talk: Frost at this time of year not all that unusual
    Can you imagine frost this time of year? Actually, such a thing would not be all that unusual. On Aug. 20, 2004, it was 34 degrees in Fargo and...
    NewsAugust 20, 2017 - 6:34am
    August 18, 2017
    Weather Talk: Expect more windy weather as summer ends
    July and August are our least windy months of the year, but as summer begins to drift into fall, the weather will turn windier as it turns cooler....
    NewsAugust 18, 2017 - 6:49am
    August 17, 2017
    High humidity largely absent this summer in Red River Valley
    Midnight and still 80 degrees. You knew it would still be in the 70s in the morning. Remember those sticky summer nights spent on sweat-soaked...
    NewsAugust 17, 2017 - 6:21am
    August 16, 2017
    Weather talk: A sudden turn to cooler-than-normal August weather
    The first half of August has been cool. Every day but one has been cooler than average with the exception of Aug. 8 which, with a high of 85...
    NewsAugust 16, 2017 - 6:52am
    August 15, 2017
    Weather talk: waning days of summer, waxing nights of fall
    August, the final month of summer, is half over. Nights are longer and starting earlier. Days are perceptibly shorter than they were a month...
    NewsAugust 15, 2017 - 6:25am
    August 10, 2017
    Arnie Zent turns a windrow of field grass south of Bismarck on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 10, 2017 with plans to have it baled before the weekend. "It's CRP actually. I cut it every three years," said Zent, "and this hay is going to people who need it." Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
    Sliver of Richland County remains drought free
    WAHPETON, N.D. — Wahpeton in Richland County has the distinction of sitting amid the only strip of land in North Dakota that has not been...
    NewsAugust 10, 2017 - 6:15pm
    August 4, 2017
    In an undated handout photo, the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, in Tasmania. The station, along with its counterparts across the world, has been flashing a warning: The excess carbon dioxide scorching the planet rose at the highest rate on record in 2015 and 2016. Scientists are concerned over the cause of the rapid rise, which may indicate the world’s natural sponges that absorb carbon dioxide have changed. (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization via The New York Times)
    Extreme weather seen killing 152,000 Europeans a year by 2100
    LONDON - Europe's death toll from weather disasters could rise 50-fold by the end of this century, with extreme heat alone killing more than...
    NewsAugust 4, 2017 - 5:37pm
    August 3, 2017
    The U.S. Drought Monitor map issued Thursday shows severe drought expanding east across southern Stutsman County, shown in orange on the map. Northern Stutsman County is in moderate drought conditions, shown in tan. Yellow represents abnormally dry areas while red is extreme drought and the darkest area reflects exceptional drought. Courtesy / National Drought Mitigation Center.
    Moisture conditions in ND similar to drought year of 1988
    JAMESTOWN, N.D.—Reports of some wheat fields yielding less than 20 bushels per acre and moisture totals for the year comparable to the...
    NewsAugust 3, 2017 - 7:04pm
    August 1, 2017
    After possible high of 90 degrees Monday, temps expected to drop to 70s
    July was warmer and drier than average in Grand Forks, but the weather offered little else for the record books. "It's been a boring month,"...
    NewsAugust 1, 2017 - 6:44pm
    Weather Talk: Temp always needs to be measured in the shade
    It seems simple enough to hold a thermometer out in the sun in order to get the temperature "in the sun." But this idea is all wrong. Air isn't...
    NewsAugust 1, 2017 - 6:49am
    July 31, 2017
    Weather Talk: We might be due for a colder, snowier winter
    With a full month of summer remaining, it might well be unpopular to bring up the topic of winter weather. Nevertheless, I find myself wondering...
    NewsJuly 31, 2017 - 6:48am
    July 30, 2017
    Weather Talk: Nature tends to take periodic droughts in stride
    Along the Red River, between the Fargo water plant and Lindenwood Park, there is a stand of willow shrubbery that has been there as long as I...
    NewsJuly 30, 2017 - 6:46am
    July 29, 2017
    Weather Talk: What does it mean when moon 'waxes' and 'wanes'?
    The moon tonight is waxing crescent. "Crescent" describes the shape of the moon, but "waxing" is not as well-known. The word "waxing" comes from...
    NewsJuly 29, 2017 - 6:03am
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