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Bismarck 2 [Live North Dakota Web Cam Current Wind Chill -29]
KFYR-TV ^ | 1/29/19

Posted on 01/29/2019 1:04:08 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

[One of five web cams on the site]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; internet; weather
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To: Jolla

Enough with the wind chill stuff. It’s just to sensationalize.


21 posted on 01/29/2019 1:21:06 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SoFloFreeper

Thats balmy weather
I have been out on the flightline at Minot in -70 and that was just a winters day
When the great blizzard hit in ‘74 it was -100 and crews were being sent out and called back in based on changes in windspeed and chill factor.


22 posted on 01/29/2019 1:21:40 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I was helping Phillips 66 install and commission a couple vertical pumps in Lewiston, MT - so cold 🥶 our dial indicator froze up as well as the motor bearing grease. I’ve never seen grease freeze until that day. I looked up and saw a herd of elk standing in a field. Started counting - probably close to 100 of them. The next day was windless and 1 degree F. We were all in T shirts. It’s the wind that kills you
23 posted on 01/29/2019 1:23:24 PM PST by atc23
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To: SoFloFreeper

North Dakota with winds on that open prairie cause great wind chill factors. I’m absolutely shocked, in January even.


24 posted on 01/29/2019 1:23:27 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: MplsSteve

They are all in the skyway.


25 posted on 01/29/2019 1:23:37 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

I remember that story. What a tragedy! Was there a blizzard going on as well?


26 posted on 01/29/2019 1:23:49 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: shelterguy

I remember that story. What a tragedy! Was there a blizzard going on as well?


27 posted on 01/29/2019 1:23:51 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: shelterguy

One of those boys was my paper boy.


28 posted on 01/29/2019 1:27:17 PM PST by Redrivergal
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To: Maine Mariner

They were at West Acres and a storm started to hit. They got stuck on 19th ave which was always a snow trap. As you well know, once the wind starts you can’t see a thing.

I have lived in Minneapolis for years and have never seen a real blizzard. The snow falls and it just lays there.


29 posted on 01/29/2019 1:27:41 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

Yes, I remember that storm. My home is just a few blocks away from 19th ave. The city installed barriers to close the street off after that tragedy. I may still have been in Fargo when it happened.


30 posted on 01/29/2019 1:30:57 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: gibsonguy

“Enough with the wind chill stuff. It’s just to sensationalize”

I’ll try to remember that tonight when I’m waiting for my bus or when I take the dogs out after work.


31 posted on 01/29/2019 1:32:15 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Alberta's Child
I've seen ambient air temps down to -40. Honestly, I didn't think they were all that bad - no wind. Everything froze solid, though. When it's dead still like that, you can breathe out and the frost just hangs there in one spot, for a long time.

Coldest I've ever seen was up in Nova Scotia. Temps weren't all that bad - single digits and teens - but the wind came right off the North Atlantic. Literally took your breath away, the feeling was shattering. Worse than anything else I experienced, didn't matter how well you dressed for it, nothing was warm enough.

Living in the Southeast is better, temps might get down to 20 tonight; everyone is whining about the bitter cold. Will be back up to 60+ next week....

32 posted on 01/29/2019 1:33:14 PM PST by wbill
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To: SoFloFreeper

Don’t let your eyeballs freeze.
Well or any other body parts really.


33 posted on 01/29/2019 1:35:02 PM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: Maine Mariner

I lived by El Zagal. I can’t remember if I still was there at the time but those storms were common and dangerous as hell.


34 posted on 01/29/2019 1:41:26 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: MplsSteve

I was working in MN during the Blizzard of the Century back in ‘75.
Hit -93 wind chill and I was out in it for the Police Dept keeping students from freezing to death.
Vis was about 10 ft so I was wearing my ski goggles so I could see.

Rescued about 20 students.


35 posted on 01/29/2019 1:41:48 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Vis walking was 10ft.
There were over 50 cars in the ditch on the 1 mile between campus and town.
I walked most of the nite as only a fool would get in a car.


36 posted on 01/29/2019 1:47:09 PM PST by Zathras
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To: SoFloFreeper
Wow. Pure bravery to go outside.
37 posted on 01/29/2019 1:47:58 PM PST by Falconspeed
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To: Jolla
I was up in northern Ontario one unusually warm October back in the 1990s. The guy at the general store where I was buying gas said it was a bad sign ... because that typically meant there was a miserable winter ahead.

I found out later that the coldest temperatures the following winter weren't outlandish, but they lingered for a long time. The next year I was up there and the guy said it didn't get above -20 for something like six weeks.

38 posted on 01/29/2019 1:47:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: SoFloFreeper
Just a slightly colder than average January day in North Dakota. -29 wind chill happens every winter there. Actual -29 happens more winters than not. Sometime.

When I grew up in the Fargo area, we rooted for the groundhog to see his shadow because 6 more weeks of winter WAS an early spring.

39 posted on 01/29/2019 1:48:08 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Weather.com says it's supposed to be -36 tonight or tomorrow night (can't remember which) in Fargo.A few years ago I was in -40 one morning in Quebec.I don't remember it be very windy so there probably wasn't much "wind chill" but as I was checking out the big TV in the lobby showed that it was -40C...which,as it turns out,is also -40F.

I wanna tell ya...-40 is pretty damn cold....even with no wind.

40 posted on 01/29/2019 1:48:53 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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