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 April 26 in E. Grand Forks.
Due to a persistently cold late winter and early spring, the crests this year will be well past those dates.
How cold has it been?
Fargo has still not recorded a single high as warm as 50 degrees. In an incredibly warm spring of 2012, Fargo had already registered 43 days with highs at least 50 degrees by April 24. Ten of those days were at least in the 70s!
While mitigation efforts have picked up in the valley after both the 1997 and 2009 floods, the bottom line is this will likely be one of the latest and highest spring floods on record for parts of the Red River Basin.
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/fargo-flood-threat-delayed-20130412
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