Weather
Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ice up to an inch thick coated streets and, more significantly, the 100-foot Douglas fir trees that cover this region.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Grand Forks said the coldest temperature in the contiguous United States on Jan. 17 was in Kentucky, coming in at -22.
With temperatures across the northern Plains hitting the negative double digits, livestock producers give their animals extra care to prevent cold stress.
Last Saturday's weather would have gotten a weather advisory decades ago, but it was labeled with a blizzard warning.
Even Miami Beach will get to freezing on rare occasions.
With below-zero temperatures in our region, a plumbing expert says there are a number of things homeowners can do to prevent pipes from freezing and breaking.
The National Weather Service also issued a flood watch for the Mississippi River at Fort Ripley
Despite the present weather, of course.
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