Flooding Increasing This Week Animation of the Red River at Fargo, N.D. from Apr. 22-28. (Credit: USGS/City of Fargo) Fargo's Top 5 Floods of Record1) Mar. 28, 2009 (40.84')2) Apr. 18, 1997 (39.72')3) Apr. 7, 1897 (39.10')4) Apr. 9, 2011 (38.81')5) Apr. 15, 1969 (37.34') According to the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, N.D., looking at the top 15 crests all-time for which snowmelt was a prime factor, none of them occurred after April 19 in Fargo or after...

Snow at Cross Lutheran Church in Minnesota on May 12, 1946. (Maplewood Area Historical Society) As we begin tracking the next snowstorm of the season, which has already dumped over a foot of snow in the Front Range, we wanted to look back at other notable May snowstorms. (More: ) May snowfall is nothing unusual for the Rocky Mountains, but pretty much everywhere else, it's rare. One of the more recent May snowstorms outside the Rockies was on May 18,...

Late-season Winter Storm Achilles battered the Great Plains, Rockies, and Midwest with a vengeance, dumping record snow in some towns while dropping temperatures to record levels in others. "Winter Storm Achilles will go down in history as one of the greatest snowstorms so late in the season for the Midwest," said weather.com meteorologist . "Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota may have set new state snowfall records for the month of May. Snow was reported in Arkansas for the first time in...

Historic May Snowstorm Winter Storm Achilles wasan historic, record-breaking May snowstorm for the Midwest and even parts of the South. We have a look at 10 of the most amazing aspects of this storm ranging from extreme temperatures to where we've seen record snowfall. We begin with a city that went from feeling summer heat to shivering like it was the heart of winter. Highs Tuesday versus Thursday morning temperatures. (MORE: | ) On the final two days of April,...

Longport, N.J. A construction crew works on replacing the dunes at 35th Ave in Longport, N.J. Thursday Nov 8, 2012 after Winter Storm Athena and Hurricane Sandy hit the region. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Edward Lea) Winter Storm Athena November 6 - 8, 2012 Our first named winter storm of the season was Athena, which brought snow to parts of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and New England less than two weeks after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the region...

(iWitnessWeather/ArcticFoxx) April 2013 was the coldest in over a decade for the U.S. Then, early May featured a freak snowstorm, with accumulating snow falling as far south as Arkansas. Fortunately, if you're not a winter fan, mid-May's higher sun angle and climatology finally shoved this cold out of the U.S. Well...except for one state. Map of temperature anomalies from April 1 through May 14, 2013. Strongest cold anomalies (4-5 degrees C or more) indicated by deep purple contours. (Image: NOAA/ESRL...

Instead of shorts and t-shirts, parts of northern New England and northern New York have been shivering and shoveling snow over the Memorial Day weekend. According to Christopher Burt of wunderground.com, snowflakes were observed at elevations as low as 750 feet from May 24-26, 2013. Accumulations were confined to elevations of 1,500 feet and higher in northern New York, northern Vermont and northern New Hampshire. As shown in the video above, Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks of New York measured...

Winter Storm Athena The storm that followed closely behind Superstorm Sandy left huge snowfall totals in some areas. Leading the way were Monroe and Clintonville, Conn., receiving 13.5 inches of snow each. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Another season of winter weather is upon us, and for the second year in a row, The Weather Channel announced it will be naming winter storms that fit appropriate criteria. Twenty-seven winter storms were named in the 2012-13 season, going one name beyond the predetermined...

(Mario Tama/Getty Images) For the second year in a row, The Weather Channel will be naming winter storms that fit certain criteria. Winter weather can bringfreezing temperatures, flooding, power outages, travel disruptions and other inconveniences caused by snow and ice storms. These can be life-threatening situations if the proper precautions are not taken in the hours and days leading up to a winter storm's arrival. The decision to begin naming storms came about as part of The Weather Channel’s program...

The Weather Channel meteorologists Tom Niziol, Peter Neilley and Stu Ostrohave determined that a storm expected to soon hit a large swath of states in the Rockies, Foothills and Plains fits all the criteria to be named Winter Storm Atlas. It is the first named storm of the 2013-14 winter weather season. The decision was based on the current level of forecast confidence, expected effects meeting National Weather Service winter storm warning criteria across a sizable area and this storm...

Northeast The interactive map above is not compatible with Internet Explorer 9, but does work with IE8, IE10, Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers. JUMP TO ANOTHER REGION:|| When can you expect the season's first measurable snow? We've plotted National Weather Service 30-year average dates of the season's first measurable snow, the earliest-in-season snow on record and average annual snowfall for dozens of cities on the interactive map above. Click on a snowflake icon in the interactive map to see when...

The Weather Channel announced that after a successful first year, winter storms that fit a certain criteria will be named again during the 2013-14 season. Many of the requirements for a winter storm to earn a name haven't changed, as pictured in the image above. If a storm is expected to break records or get etched in our memory as a monster event, it will receive the next of our alphabetically-ordered, predetermined names on the list. (MORE:|) One difference isn't...

During the government shutdown, the 122 , issuing potentially life-saving forecasts and warnings. "Neither snow nor rain" is part of the unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service. However, NWS employees in Rapid City, S.D. seem to have taken that motto to heart. Like most other federal workers during the shutdown, the NWS meteorologists are not getting paid right now, and are hoping to receive back pay for work performed during this period. Not only are the meteorologists working for...