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John Wheeler: In a climatological oddity, April is now the snowiest of the winter

Grand Forks Herald 05 Apr 2025
FARGO — The recent snowstorm has had the unusual effect of making the month of April the snowiest of this winter season for Fargo and Moorhead ... Comments. Share ... Tags ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY..
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John Wheeler: March was warmer and drier than average

Grand Forks Herald 04 Apr 2025
FARGO — The month of March was warm and dry ... Only three days during the month had high temperatures of 32 degrees or colder and there were no subzero temperatures ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Is the wet period waning or not?

Grand Forks Herald 03 Apr 2025
FARGO — From 1881 through 1992, average precipitation in the Red River Valley was around 19 inches a year ... It may already be waning ... Comments. Share ... News Reporting ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: A winter with limited snow does not make a summer drought a certainty

Grand Forks Herald 02 Apr 2025
FARGO — Two winters with limited snow cover has led to two springs with a high wildfire risk across North Dakota and northwest Minnesota ... Comments. Share ... Tags. Tags ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Arctic sea ice has reached its smallest maximum winter coverage

Grand Forks Herald 01 Apr 2025
Covering 5.53 million square miles, this is the smallest maximum extent of Arctic Sea ice in the 47-year history of satellite ice measurement ... Comments. Share ... Tags ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: It is still too cold for most grass to turn green

Grand Forks Herald 31 Mar 2025
FARGO — The soil remains frozen across North Dakota and northern Minnesota ... Certainly, the weather this past weekend has done nothing but reinforce this ... Comments ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Look at the river today and you're likely looking at the spring flood

Grand Forks Herald 30 Mar 2025
FARGO — A Fargo resident came up to me this week and asked if I thought there would be much of a flood on the Red River this spring ... Comments. Share ... News Reporting ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Early season heat has already made Arizona hot

Grand Forks Herald 29 Mar 2025
FARGO — The first heat wave of the summer has already hit the Desert Southwest ... Such temperatures are about 15 degrees warmer than average for late March ... Comments ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: March has been warmer than average, but not extremely so

Grand Forks Herald 28 Mar 2025
FARGO — Our region entered the month of March with little to no winter snowpack to melt away, opening up optimism that the spring might come early ... Comments. Share ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Even when it is warmer than average, March is mainly a winter month

Brainerd Dispatch 27 Mar 2025
FARGOClassic illustrations of March weather in calendars and children's books generally depict blooming flowers, budding trees and flying kites ... Comments. Share ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Despite the longing for spring, this continues to be a mild month

Brainerd Dispatch 26 Mar 2025
FARGO — Throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota, the average daily mean temperature during March is running about 7 degrees warmer than average ... Comments. Share ... Tags ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: The deadliest tornado year in US history was 100 years ago

Grand Forks Herald 25 Mar 2025
FARGO — The deadliest year in United States tornado history remains 1925. Much of this can be attributed to the single most deadly and destructive tornado in U.S ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: The scent of rain in spring is a pleasant smell

Brainerd Dispatch 24 Mar 2025
One of the most pleasant sensations of spring is the smell we all associate with rain. Rain is essentially water, which is odorless ... Comments. Share ... News Reporting ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Today's date presents an illustration of March weather extremes

Grand Forks Herald 23 Mar 2025
FARGO — March 23 is an interesting day in the Fargo-Moorhead weather record book ... In 1910, it was 80 degrees ... Comments. Share. Share this article. News Reporting ... Tags ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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John Wheeler: Wednesday's blizzard was a memorable one

Brainerd Dispatch 22 Mar 2025
Wednesday's blizzard across Nebraska and western Iowa was such a storm. Tuesday had been a warm, spring day with temperatures in the 70s ... Comments. Share ... Tags. Tags ... Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY. ... .
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