Our weather is so volatile and changeable here in the Fargo-Moorhead area that it can be hard to know what to expect from the weather on any given day.
For example, for Jan. 31, the average high temperature is 18 degrees, and the average low is zero degrees. But a spot check of Jan. 31 over the past few years reveals a wide range of conditions.
Jan. 31, 2010, was partly cloudy and very cold with a high of 4 degrees and a low of minus 6 degrees. The record high for Jan. 31 occurred in 2009, when the high was 44 degrees under a sunny sky. The low temperature in 2009 was 21 degrees. In 2008, the high was 11, and the low was 9 below with a partly cloudy sky. In 2007, the high was 12, and the low was 5 below, again with a partly cloudy sky. Back in 2006, the high was 33, and the low was 24, and an inch of snow fell.
The coldest Jan. 31 in the record book happened back in 1887 when the high temperature was 18 below, and the low was 34 below.
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