The first part of this week brought some bitter cold temperatures in the area overnight. The National Weather Service said a piece of the polar vortex that typically holds arctic air around the North Pole has broken off and moved south, causing unseasonably cold temperatures in part of the United States and Europe this week.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Megan Mulford said some of the record low temperatures were recorded in South Dakota Monday night and into Tuesday morning.
In a reverse Mulford said we will have some unseasonally warm temperatures this weekend and into next week.
In North Dakota, National Weather Service data shows Bismarck’s temperature got down to minus-35 on Monday (Feb. 17, 2025), breaking a 150-year-old record of minus-30 for the date of Feb. 17. On Tuesday, Bismarck got down to minus-39, breaking the record of minus-37 that was set Feb. 18, 1910.
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