Our recent stint of very mild mornings may have you thinking that below-zero mornings are a thing of the past.
The average last day with a low temperature below zero is March 11 in Fargo-Moorhead. In the past two decades, that day has fluctuated from Feb. 16, 2000, to March 26, 1996.
Last year, the last below-zero day of the season was on March 12, which was the day after we recorded
one of the latest sub-zero highs on record with a high of minus 1 on March 11.
The latest below-zero day recorded was during the
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first year of record keeping back in 1881. That year,
the last below-zero reading occurred on April 4, and the earliest we have recorded our last negative temperature
of the season was Jan. 24, 1987.
My hunch is we will observe another below-zero morning this season, but I would like to be wrong.
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