Heart of the Bakken With Most Snow Ever Recorded for the Month of December

Williston, the heart of the Bakken, has now received the most snow ever recorded for the month of December.

Link here.

Minot, a couple hours east of Williston by oil truck, also ended the year with record amount of snowfall.

The eastern part of the state has also participated in record amounts of snow (all figures rounded):

Total snowfall from July 1 through Dec. 31 in Fargo was 45 inches, 29 inches above the norm of 16 inches for the period; in 2009, 26 inches fell during that period.

On an unrelated note, Al Gore had to cancel his speech on "Global Warming" scheduled for Monday at the Williston Elks Club when Amtrak canceled trains to Williston due to snow accumulation.

I spent the first eighteen years of my life in North Dakota, most of it in Williston, and I remember some pretty good years for snow, so this must have been some humdinger of a December.

Again, to tie this in with the Bakken, producers will miss their production targets for December due to all this snow and the blizzards.