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The following is a list of Minnesota weather records observed at various stations across the state during the Over 160 years. Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. Due to its location in the northern plains of the United States its climate is one of extremes.
On January 6, 1994, Finland, Minnesota, received 36 inches (0.91 m) of lake effect snow in 24 hours, and 47 inches (1.19 m) over a three-day period. Both are Minnesota records. At 85 inches or 2.16 meters per year, the port city of Duluth has the highest average snowfall total of any city in Minnesota. [12]
Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [10] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year. Tamarack in Calaveras County holds the record for the deepest snowfall on earth (884 inches (2,250 cm)). 5. Alaska: Valdez: 314.1 inches (798 cm) 95 feet (29 m)
Here's how we compiled the list: We pored through 30-year average snowfall statistics of hundreds of locations in the U.S. from 1991 through 2020. We considered only those towns and cities with a ...
The map is a colorful one, and it shows that the snowiest month of the year can vary quite a bit from region to region, but February stands out as the biggest snow month for major cities in the ...
The city of Duluth, Minnesota experienced their snowiest winter, with 138.3 in (351 cm) of snow as of April 20, [150] while Minneapolis recorded their third snowiest winter. [151] The city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota had their second snowiest January in history, as well as their snowiest 24 hour period between January 2-3, and their fourth ...
For comparison, the seasonal snowfall in Duluth is more snow than the 133.3 inches of snow that have accumulated in Washington, D.C., since the start of 2011.
The North American winter of 2017–18 began in the month of November with the highest snow extent in at least one and a half decades, with snow covering over a quarter of the contiguous United States, [4] 22% more than the same date in 2011, the next-most-recent year with comparable snow coverage at that date.