Heavy snow in places like New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., is exceedingly rare. However, such a thing is not unprecedented and should not be taken as an example of weather going wrong. These ...

Record single-storm totals from across the Great Plains region suggest that snowfalls of up to four feet are possible, although rare. The Halloween blizzard of 1991 dropped 36 inches on Duluth.

FARGO — The Polar Vortex has become a favorite winter weather buzzword in recent years, despite the fact that only serious meteorologists actually know what it is. The Polar Vortex is not the ...

FARGO — The weather gets cold for a while and then it warms up again. We get a couple of big snowstorms and then it doesn’t snow much at all. Back, forth, up, down; weather is always changing ...

FARGO — A bill has been introduced to the Oklahoma state Senate that would require storm chasers to be licensed. The bill, written by Sen. Mark Mann, is called the Oklahoma Emergency Weather ...

FARGO — What is a typical winter? Here in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, it's actually kind of hard to specify what our weather "usually" is at any time of year, particularly winter.

FARGO — When forecasting temperature, there is much to consider. What is the temperature range within the air coming our way and how will it be changed by radiative processes? In winter ...

FARGO — The light snow pack across the region this winter could be setting us up for a false spring. Typically, the deepest snow cover of the winter across the Northern Plains region happens in ...

FARGO — Cold is a relative thing when it comes to human comfort. People around these parts are generally able to handle much colder weather with much less discomfort than people who live in ...

FARGO — The frequency of extremely cold temperatures in the weather record for the Fargo area tell a story. We can divide the period of record, 1881 to 2024, into three parts: 1881-1924, 1925-74 ...

FARGO — The principal of a liquid-in-glass thermometer is that the liquid inside a very narrow tube will contract and expand with temperature variation. The top of the liquid represents the ...

FARGO — The lack of snow the past two winters in our region pales in comparison to the lack of winter in the usually snowy northeastern United States. The official weather station for Boston at ...