Weather
To go an entire winter with barely a foot of measured snowfall is rare.
The drill is part of North Dakota Severe Weather Awareness Week.
High pressure over the retreating glacier north of here would have created brutally cold winters with hot and dry summers.
Many people have the idea that these averages and normals somehow represent what the weather should be doing.
Fargo, Grand Forks, and Waterloo, Iowa tied for the national high at 100 degrees.
The primary cause of the rain smell comes from bacteria which are released from the soil by raindrops.
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There are many theories, but no one really knows.
The age of the Red River is a little more than 9,000 years, which is brand-new, geologically.
StormTRACKER Meteorologist John Wheeler looks at a calmer spring weather pattern.
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John Wheeler
Lydia Blume
Jesse Ritka
Robert Poynter
Dillon Vogt
Charles Pekar
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