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| https://strangesounds.org/2019/10/north-dakota-snow-blizzard-videos-pictures.htmlUnusual Blizzard Buries North Dakota in Historic Amounts of Snow – Farmers DevastatedBy
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Oct 14, 2019
A record-setting four-day fall snowstorm moved out of North Dakota on Sunday, leaving behind historic amounts of snow in some areas. Bismarck got 17.1 inches of snow and set daily records for snowfall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday – on Friday breaking a record that had stood more than a century. Blizzard and huge amounts of snow in Langdon, North Dakota in October 2019. Picture via Facebook
The 11.6 inches that fell between 7 a.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday set a Bismarck record for one-day, 24-hour total snowfall in October.
To set so many records in such a short period of time is “pretty unusual,” weather service meteorologist Bill Abeling said.
To the northeast, the storm went beyond unusual to extreme, with snowfall totals reaching as high as 30 inches in Harvey, a city of about 1,700 people. In those areas, “if you wanted to label it historic, I wouldn’t argue with you,” Abeling said.
All of the main streets in Harvey had been cleared by late Saturday, but it wasn’t an easy task, according to City Councilman Milo Baltrusch.
“There was a snowbank by the grade school, it must have been 10, 12 feet high,” he said.
The storm came in two waves – the initial system moving out of the Pacific and the second out of the Rockies. It shut down highways including Interstate 94 between Bismarck and Fargo, led to dozens of accidents in the Bismarck-Mandan area and caused numerous flight delays and cancellations.
All highways had been reopened by Sunday, and no winter weather warnings or advisories remained in effect. All flights at the Bismarck airport were on time. The PowerOutage.us tracking site listed only 40 people without power statewide.
“The snow is done, the sun is shining, everybody is digging out,” Baltrusch said.
Another system could bring freezing rain or a rain-snow mix on Monday, but forecasters don’t expect much additional precipitation, according to Abeling.
“This particular system is going to be faster and weaker than this big storm that hit us,” he said.
After that, a warm-up is in store. High temperatures late in the week could reach into the 40s in central North Dakota and into the 60s in the west.
“That will start the melt,” Abeling said.
It also will bring concerns about flooding, given the saturated ground from an overly wet September.
“Hopefully the temperatures in the 40s and 30s will result in a slow-enough melt that there won’t be any flooding,” Abeling said.
Farmers Devastated After North Dakota BlizzardWhether farmers in snowy areas are able to get back into the field to harvest the hundreds of thousands of acres of grain and row crops, sugar beets and potatoes remains to be seen. Northwest of Grand Forks, 2 feet of snow fell near Langdon, where earlier this week farmers were working to combine canola before the snowstorm.
“I think this is going to shut harvest down completely,” said Randy Mehloff, Langdon Research and Extension Center director. “There are 8-feet snow drifts everywhere we look. If I were to take a guess, I’d say everything north of Highway 2 and 200 and everything east of Minot is shot.”
About 25% of the canola in Cavalier County and most of the soybeans are unharvested, Mehloff said.
“It doesn’t look like anything will be picked up again,” he said. “I think right now, the farmers are totally devastated. They’re going to have to look at their bottom lines and activate their insurance programs and see how they come out of this.”
This snow storm has been just insane and is almost unprecedented in North Dakota, as shown by the more-than-100-year-old snowfall records that have been broken this weekend in some ND cities.
And it seems that farmers have a really hard time in front of them, with some fields covered in snow hindering the already poor harvest 2019. Such anomalous weather phenomena are becoming the new normal, and we are all going to suffer. Be ready and get prepared! [Aberdeen News, Bismark Tribune]
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