Weather extremes

Where is that Dennis?

 

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In the early 90’s I was working on a 6 month stint in Mandan, just west of Bismarck. The plant I was at had temperature and time sign a the front office. It was 104F almost everyday in the summer it was sunny it seemed.
Job got shut down in late September due to a blizzard.

edit: went back to refresh my memory, it was end of October and it was -10F.

 

I took these pictures about 6 years ago, 10 miles and 6 months apart

 

I'm about a 2 hour drive north east of Bismarck. One thing all the out of state people that have come to work here talk about is how extreme and fast to change the weather is here.

 

Try a 49 degree warm up in 2 minutes.
Google temperature extremes.

Gary

 

January 22 1943. Spearfish South Dakota. Chinook winds. 58 degree drop in 27 minutes!

 

Back in the later 90s we had a 70 degree drop one spring day. Temp hit 80something during the day and the wind came up and temp fell off a cliff in the late afternoon down into the teens. Never seen anything like that before or since, some weird kind of front came through in the early spring.

 

Or over 100 degrees in 24 hours…

 

Dat a lot. Way too warm for any month! I would take the -26 and burn firewood!