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Thunderstorms, high temperatures in region’s future Staff Report
Severe thunderstorms may bring large hail, damaging wind gusts and a few tornadoes from the Northern Plains to the Upper Midwest early in the week, but the conditions are ripe for the weather to continue to harshly treat North Dakota, according to the Bismarck office of the National Weather Service. According to a release from Bismarck, the region faces a stormy future, with some sizzling thrown in on the weekend. “A frontal boundary over the northern Plains will continue to act as a focus for showers and thunderstorms for the next couple of days as it moves into the Great Lakes. “Some of the thunderstorms may become severe from eastern Montana eastward into Minnesota. Some isolated flash flooding may occur in areas that see heavier rain rates. To the east of this system, very warm temperatures into the upper 80s and low 90s will be common across the Midwest,” the short term forecast predicted Monday. More thunderstorms are predicted to hit the area Friday evening. Temperatures are predicted to range from the mid 80s to the mid 90s through Sunday.
A hot Fourth of July helped prompt water wars among visitors and spectators after the Fourth of July parade in Marmarth Saturday.
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Marmarth held a Fourth of July celebration with evening fireworks battling with a thunderstorm for aerial display supremacy, while during the day holding a parade and rodeo. PHOTOS/Brad Mosher
Fireworks, parade put colorful hue in Marmarth celebration Marmarth’s population more than doubled over the Independence Day weekend when the small Slope County community near North Dakota’s border with Montana celebrated the Fourth of July with games, music, a parade and rodeo. The rodeo was held in the nearby Little Missouri Saddle Club rodeo arena on the west edge of town, with slack starting in the morning and the regular events kicking off in the late afternoon. After the parade, the celebration continued on Main Street, with some spectators celebrating with water wars to beat the 85 degree weather, then later holding a concert and dancing with the fireworks show. The fireworks also shared the sky with a lightning show followed by rain in Marmarth. According to Dennis Rice, pastor of the Marmarth Bible Church in Marmarth, it was a good celebration with a strong pa-
triotic theme. “It was a better turnout than I thought there was going to be. I think the weather cooperated quite a bit with that,” he said as he cooked hamburgers and brats in front of his church. “It was probably a couple of hundred (spectators).” He had a good view from the large truck which participated in the parade and was draped in flags with a strong patriotic theme. Even a thunderstorm Friday evening helped to clean off Main Street for the big Fourth of July celebration Saturday. Rice and his church also celebrated the holiday with free hamburgers and brats after the parade on 1st Avenue W, with the pastor cooking up lunch for the visitors who stopped by and sat on the furniture in the front yard. The rodeo also drew hundreds to the small community Saturday.
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A downpour may have drenched testers from the state and local health departments along with the National Guard at the COVID-19 drive up testing July 30, after almost 300 people went through, none were listed as positive. PHOTOS/Brad Mosher
Bowman draws big blank in COVID drive up testing Staff Report
The first COVID-19 drive up testing in Bowman County drew hundreds to the fairgrounds Tuesday. It also drew a big blank. Zero. Zed. Nil. After the testing was completed and the results released, Bowman County’s total remained the same as it has for months – one positive case of Coronavirus. There were zero positives when it was finished after the cloudburst drenched the testers all day June 30. According to the Bowman County Public Health Office, 287 people were processed through testing
tents in the parking lot of the Bowman County Fairgrounds by local health officials with assistance from the North Dakota National Guard and state health department. Still, the states as a whole watch the numbers continue to rise. By Sunday, the death toll connected to the COVID-19 pandemic was at 80 for the state. Regionally, only Adams County to the east and Golden Valley to the north has yet to have a positive case from the testing. There are only four counties in the state, which have not recorded any positive results this year.
Both Bowman’s one and Slope’s three positives were recorded several months ago. According to ND response, the July 5 testing reported that Cass County had the most new positives (11), followed by Burleigh (9), Williams (4) and Stark (3). The testing results show an upward trajectory of positives in the state, with 37 reported positives of the 3,816 total tests announced July 5. Since testing began, the state has completed 201,303 tests by July 5, with 113,128 unique individuals. In addition, the state has 3,324 who are listed as recovered by health officials so far.
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