North Dakota
WeatherTalk: March was a very dry month across North Dakota
FARGO — This previous March was the seventh driest statewide within the final 128 years, in line with Dr. Adnan Akyuz, the North Dakota State Climatologist. Throughout central and western North Dakota, the dry winter had created concern that one other spring and summer season drought could possibly be within the works, however snow this week means a summer season drought should begin from scratch.
The very dry March additionally took away any chunk the spring flood within the Crimson River Basin might need mustered. The priority was by no means too excessive for a severe, sandbagging flood on the Crimson this spring, however with the close to full absence of rain and snow in March and a superbly timed heat spell, the winter snow melted earlier than wetter April climate returned. Latest rainfall has prompted a second rise on rivers within the Valley, together with the Crimson, however had these two separate rises occurred concurrently, a single crest may have been extra severe.