Weather Talk: F-M averages 119 days at or above 70 degrees

The cold season is our dominant season, and most of us long for the warmth of our usually short warm season.

Now that we have experienced a few 70-degree days, if you are a warm-season fan, you will be happy to know that Fargo-Moorhead records an average 119 such days a year. Looked at in another way, the high temperature will be at or above 70 degrees nearly one day in three over the course of a calendar year.

Of those 119 days averaged at or above 70 degrees, 61 will reach or exceed 80 degrees, and on 13 days the high temperature will be recorded at or above 90 degrees.

We average less than one day per year with a high at or above 100, with only 86 such days recorded since 1881.

Granted, average does not mean much, but the number of days at 70 degrees or higher this year should fall somewhere between the historic low of 85 days in 1883 and the historic high of 146 days observed in 1988.

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