(Dickinson, ND) — Communities in western and central North Dakota have posted record breaking temperatures during the arctic blast. Dickinson residents have been hit the hardest with a brutal 70-below wind chill recorded at 4:40 Saturday morning. The air temperature was 33-below-zero with a 29 mile per hour wind.
It wasn’t much better in Minot, Williston or Bismarck which saw wind chill indices in the minus-60-degree range on Saturday.
Residents in North Dakota definitely spend a lot of time battling the cold with 184 days of the year below freezing. That comes with a fair share of burst water pipes which can cause extensive damage. Some tips to avoid the mess is to insulate pipes by wrapping them, allowing faucets to drip especially for pipes against outside walls and opening cabinets beneath sinks to let warmer air from the room in to warm the pipes.
