The people controlling the weather machine must be mad at ND

[N201MKTurbo]

[AIREMATT]

It’s been like that all winter in MN and ND…forecasters up here would be more successful playing the roulette wheel this winter.

[LANCECASPER]

I was born in Minnesota (Grand Rapids KGPZ) and spent a couple years in Bemidji, MN (KBJI) and 5.5 years (6 winters!!) in Grand Forks, ND (KGFK). I moved to Texas over 30 years ago and haven't looked back. The most uncomfortable I've been here is 15-20 degrees, rather than at times 100 degrees uncomfortable in ND. The best thing that happened in ND in that 5.5 years was my private pilot license - it allowed me to get out of there often .




The people were great, but not the weather. This year looks unusually mild though.

[jlunseth]

Yeah, I am in Minneapolis and my brother lives in GFK. I have been trying to get up there because he wants to start flying lessons, but I have been watching that block of weather over ND for about a week now. Still there, although it is not confined to ND now, it has crept into western MN. But those who hate the MN weather, we have been in the 50s and sunny for about the last week now, it is only those poor Nodaks who have not gotten the message yet.

[0TreeLemur]

Blame Canada!

[N201MKTurbo]

I know the weather sucks up there, but what struck me funny was that the weather stopped at the state border. What is the deal with that? So there are clear skies in South Dakota and Canada, but just across the border it is cloudy and raining? 

[Stubby]

Like a true North Dakotan I will smile and say "it could be 20 below".

[jlunseth]

On 2/7/2024 at 9:56 AM, N201MKTurbo said:

I know the weather sucks up there, but what struck me funny was that the weather stopped at the state border. What is the deal with that? So there are clear skies in South Dakota and Canada, but just across the border it is cloudy and raining? 

I have a guess. They closed all the freeway gates in ND and that stopped the weather at the border. The freeway gates are there to prevent Darwinian applicants from “givin’ ‘er a try don’t ja know.” And I am not pickin on em, I am one of them, ja u betcha fer sur. We refer to that weather condition as “uffda” weather.

[EricJ]

4 hours ago, jlunseth said:

I have a guess. They closed all the freeway gates in ND and that stopped the weather at the border. The freeway gates are there to prevent Darwinian applicants from “givin’ ‘er a try don’t ja know.” And I am not pickin on em, I am one of them, ja u betcha fer sur. We refer to that weather condition as “uffda” weather.

Yeah, that and the snow fences are probably restraining the weather.