Minot, North Dakota, Setting Cold Temperature Records; Moisture Records

The Minot Daily Press is reporting:

.... the moisture for the month of October was 2.68 inches. He said that compares with 2.45 inches for the same period one year ago and the 107-year long-term average of 1.05 inches.

"That is record territory, as the record amount of moisture received in any one calendar year was 1975, and that was 26.99," he said.

"We had 1.0 inch of snowfall during the month (of October), and this compares with the half-inch we had for the same month last year and the long-term average of 2.5 inches," he said.

"This past month of October, we had a monthly average temp of 41.2 degrees, which was 1.4 degrees above last year's average temps for the same month but was below the 107-year long-term average of 43.9 degrees," Tarasenko said.

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