Winter weather 2019-20

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

Off to a great start.

Cloudiest US city for the month of October.

This may actually explain a lot.

[Oxbow6]

IIRC I read this October was the coldest October in F-M in the past 30 years and thru October in GF it's the wettest first 10 months of the year ever recorded.

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

26 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

IIRC I read this October was the coldest October in F-M in the past 30 years and thru October in GF it's the wettest first 10 months of the year ever recorded.

Weather has been all kinds of extremes since this wet cycle started in the fall of 1993.
That year my father bought tracks for the combine to get the crop off.
Devils Lake has risen to near natural spillage levels in the time frame.
GF got wet in 1997.
The RR Valley has had many high water years, Fargo has had many tough fights along with other communities.
Lots of crop still in fields, going to result in many $ of loss.
 

[Oxbow6]

My expression today when it was snowing.

[Cratter]

Could easily be another "100 year flood" this coming spring with all the wet soil that's gonna freeze.

[sioux rube]

7 hours ago, Cratter said:

Could easily be another "100 year flood" this coming spring with all the wet soil that's gonna freeze.

It’s not looking good that’s for sure 

[The Sicatoka]

10 hours ago, Cratter said:

Could easily be another "100 year flood" this coming spring with all the wet soil that's gonna freeze.

I see your 100 and raise you to 500. 

[fightingsioux4life]

I heard that bees abandoned their hives in late September or early October. That seems a little early for them to do that. I think this might be a harsh winter.

[Oxbow6]

2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

I see your 100 and raise you to 500. 

So a 500 year flood comes every 10 years now.........makes sense.

[The Sicatoka]

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

20 hours ago, Cratter said:

Could easily be another "100 year flood" this coming spring with all the wet soil that's gonna freeze.

Many sump pumps still pumping in GF, be interesting to find out how high the volume of daily sewer water heading to the lagoon is at daily.
An article in Herald a few weeks ago had normal sewer usage through out year at 8M gal per day with about 20M gal daily at that time.
The assumption to this big increase was that sump pumps pumping into the sewer had much to do with this. While not everyone is guilty here, some are still pumping outside and of those some are finding the sump pump hoses freezing up and then the sump pump burning up.

Next spring could definitely bring many challenges.
Another thing that happens when the ground is this wet is that when it freezes, it raises up more than normal - with the expansion of the water freezing in the soil.

[Rebel_Sioux]

It only there only there was some reason for this that could be explained by science...

6 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

So a 500 year flood comes every 10 years now.........makes sense.

 

[Oxbow6]

20 minutes ago, Rebel_Sioux said:

It only there only there was some reason for this that could be explained by science...

 

Too much water........

[Blackheart]

11 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

Too much water........

Thank you Mr. Know It All!

 

[Oxbow6]

1 hour ago, Blackheart said:

Thank you Mr. Know It All!

 

You're welcome!

[The Sicatoka]

20 hours ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:

... some are still pumping outside and of those some are finding the sump pump hoses freezing up and then the sump pump burning up.

If your sump pump hammers away at 20% duty cycle the constantly flowing water doesn't freeze. 

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

4 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

If your sump pump hammers away at 20% duty cycle the constantly flowing water doesn't freeze. 

And if it doesn't, the hose freezes up when cold enough. A few variables involved here.

[The Sicatoka]

On 11/6/2019 at 8:31 PM, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:

And if it doesn't, the hose freezes up when cold enough. A few variables involved here.

Um. Yeah. 

At least I have above ground discharge options on both my discharges. One neighbor's discharge line exists his house two feet below grade. He's looking at punching a hole in the side of his house in case his underground freezes up while the sump is still active. (We're both on private septic so no "dump it to the city sanitary sewer" option.) 

[Oxbow6]

8-14" of snow forecasted this weekend in GF. 12-18" in Fargo.

Buckle up!

[Nodak78]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

8-14" of snow forecasted this weekend in GF. 12-18" in Fargo.

Buckle up!

I booked rooms in GF about 10 days ago for this Sat for the playoffs.  Cancelled them the other day.  Kind of glad we are on the road because I would have bought tickets and end up staying home and watching on TV because of weather.  And so it goes.

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/weather/4873960-Grand-Forks-has-gotten-more-than-4-feet-of-snow-so-far-this-winter

 

[The Sicatoka]

It's a winter ground blizzard party out there! 

Wha ... what's that ScarJo?  

 

[SiouxSherm94]

Got a good laugh out of this one.

[MafiaMan]

27 minutes ago, SiouxSherm94 said:

Got a good laugh out of this one.

[The Sicatoka]

@MafiaMan you forgot the part about it being -110 in the arena when you got in.

Thank goodness you have "antifreeze" with ya, eh?