Weather 6/20/25

[Twitch]

Enjoy! Only 4 more months of this....

Ha more like 5 or 6

 

[bucksnbears]

No acclimating to winter this year.

 

[Jiffy]

So far it’s all melting in the FM metro.

 

[Rowdie]

 

[gillraker]

Ha more like 5 or 6

Damn! I was trying to be optimistic...

 

[Davy Crockett]

Damn! I was trying to be optimistic...

Not sure how much you guys belive in old timers tales about weather and not so sure I do either but I saw a wasp or yellowjacket nest about 12'' - 16'' off the ground, the lowest Iv'e ever saw one. Supposedly it means not much snow , I haven't saw a woolly worm but will look to see where muskrats are building.

 

[tikkalover]

Muskrat huts I’ve seen are huge.

 

[measure-it]

We've been spoiled this fall with good weather til Thanksgiving week (middle of Nov for God's sake). We are in for a nasty winter of cold & snow I think!

 

[gillraker]

We've been spoiled this fall with good weather til Thanksgiving week (middle of Nov for God's sake). We are in for a nasty winter of cold & snow I think!

I'm afraid you may be correct in that assumption.

 

[Allen]

I'm afraid you may be correct in that assumption.

Well, that's kind of been the official expectation for a while now.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Muskrat huts I’ve seen are huge.

Sounds like feeder houses, I'll have to take a drive and see what we have up here for houses and keep tabs with the thread. I was a kid that grew up around old timers and enjoy comparing what they were taught when they were kids and how education has developed. Fun part for me is the memories of the old timers I can just hear them saying it. I spent a lot of time with my Dads Uncle who was 58 when was born and lived another 20 years of active life . He was on the farm a lot and I was his little helper . He was the neighborhood Pig spleen guy who butchered one every fall and that was his thing.


According to AI The saying "a big muskrat house often means a harsh winter" is a piece of traditional weather lore. The belief among some trappers and First Nations elders is that muskrats instinctively build larger lodges or more "push-ups" in anticipation of a severe winter.

 

[BDub]

With temperatures going down the wet heavy snow will be ice soon. Not a great start to winter.

 

[LBrandt]

Getting a shit load of wet snow and with this wind its piling up in good size drifts. Glad I finished yard pickup yesterday and wife loaded up on grocery's. Might be awhile before snow plow comes. LB

 

[Davy Crockett]

Getting a shit load of wet snow and with this wind its piling up in good size drifts. Glad I finished yard pickup yesterday and wife loaded up on grocery's. Might be awhile before snow plow comes. LB

Yikes , we are central ND right by Canada and just got a good dusting. Sorry, but I'm liking how the weather patterns have changed in the last few years.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Dickinson and the Williston Basin used to be the Banana belt of ND but not so much in the last few winters

 

[Davy Crockett]

The Thanksgiving Blizzard in Fargo, November 26, 1896​

On November 26, 1896, a major winter storm hit eastern North Dakota. North Dakota residents were accustomed to blizzards. Still, there were some people who were caught outside as the storm hit and some who just believed it could not be that bad.

This storm was a bad one. Several people died in the storm, and some were saved when they stumbled upon a shelter before the cold wind stole their lives. Even in a city, where the winds were slowed somewhat by buildings, and city streets always led to shelter, some people were unable to find their homes.

The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican recorded the storm’s damage and its effect on people and business. The trains were stalled while special snowplow trains were sent out to clear the tracks. While the trains were idle, mail, food, freight, and people could not travel across the state.

The spring of 1897 brought severe flooding to Fargo and the Red River Valley. This blizzard was only the first of several storms that laid snow deep across the valley.