{"id":91592,"date":"2016-01-07T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=91592"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:08:18","slug":"suprise-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=91592","title":{"rendered":"Surprise snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow_measurement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35051\" alt=\"snow_measurement\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow_measurement-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow_measurement-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow_measurement-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow_measurement.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Some residents of southeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota were surprised by heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service says a narrow band of snow 10-20 miles wide dropped between 6 and 15 inches of snow early Thursday. The agency posted winter storm warnings and advisories for the area.<\/p>\n<p>KFGO Meteorologist Tom Szymanski (shu-MAHN&#8217;-skee) says such storm systems are called mesoscale banding and are rare. They create narrow bands of heavy snow while leaving nearby areas with little or no snow.<\/p>\n<p>Lowell Siebels lives just north of Harwood. He\u00a0 says the snow was so deep he had trouble opening his door.<\/p>\n<p>6-9 inches of new snow from overnight in the Casselton, and Mapleton areas.<\/p>\n<p>North of Fargo up to a foot of new snow in the Georgetown area.<\/p>\n<p>A few inches of new snow overnight in the Fargo area.<\/p>\n<p>13 inches reported north of Harwood, 2 inches fell in West Fargo and just over an inch in south Fargo.<\/p>\n<p>An inch or less fell in Valley City but 7 miles south of Valley City about 3 to 4 inches is being reported.<\/p>\n<p>A dusting of snow in Jamestown with a trace of precipitation on top of a coating of freezing mist.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway Patrol is advising motorists to exercise caution due to slippery road surfaces this morning in southeastern North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Some residents of southeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota were surprised by heavy snowfall. The National Weather Service says a narrow band of snow 10-20 miles wide dropped between 6 and 15 inches of snow early Thursday. The agency posted winter storm warnings and advisories for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-weathernews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91642,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91592\/revisions\/91642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}