ND, SD continue to enjoy record warmth

Posted at 11:43 AM on January 5, 2012 by MPR News Staff
Filed under: Weather

Record-breaking warmth continues to
blanket the Dakotas.

The National Weather Service says high temperature records were
broken or tied Wednesday in the North Dakota cities of Bismarck,
Williston, Jamestown and Fargo, and the South Dakota cities of
Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Yankton, Aberdeen and Huron, along with
some smaller communities.

Most of the record temps were in the 50s. Rapid City hit 62
degrees.

More record warmth is expected, and the temperature records
aren't the only ones in jeopardy. The latest date for freeze-up on
Lake Sakakawea on the Missouri River in North Dakota is Jan. 16, in
2000. Linda Phelps with the Army Corps of Engineers tells The
Bismarck Tribune that it will take some "cold, cold weather" to
keep that record from falling.

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