No snow record for Bismarck Eds: APNewsNow.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Summer days with 80-degree temperatures have made it a foregone conclusion, but now it's official: The city of Bismarck will not set a seasonal snowfall record.

The National Weather Service measures snowfall totals on a July 1 to June 30 calendar. The agency says the winter of 2008-09 ended up 1.3 inches short of the all-time snowfall record of 101.6 inches, set during the 1996-97 winter.

The last measurable snow to fall in Bismarck was one-tenth of an inch on April 24.

Weather Service meteorologist Nathan Heinert says several storms in April that could have produced enough snow to push the season total above the record moved to the south of the city, while an early June storm that dumped snow on Dickinson didn't come far enough east to hit Bismarck.

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