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Map of Minnesota showing the snowfall totals from the 1991 Halloween Blizzard. Event [3] ... Duluth: Earliest measurable snow: 0.3 inch (1 cm) September 14, 1964:
Snowfall totals for the Halloween Blizzard Over the next two days the snow continued to fall, leading to additional snowfall of one to two feet (30 cm to 60 cm). By the time the snowfall ended on November 4, the storm had dropped 36.9 in (93.7 cm) on Duluth, the largest single snow storm total in Minnesota history at that time.
Duluth and Grand Marais Harbor, Minnesota, experienced wind gusts of 74 mph (119 km/h) and 82 mph (132 km/h), respectively, on December 23, causing damage to some buildings. [17] Snowfalls on the northern Plains included up to 12 in (30 cm) in Minnesota, up to 5.9 in (15 cm) in Iowa, up to 4.0 in (10 cm) in Missouri and up to 15.6 in (40 cm) in ...
And on Nov. 3, a few more tenths of an inch, bringing a whopping 28.4 inches of snow, the biggest single storm still on record. But there was an even bigger event roughly a decade prior.
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.
Only 19 inches of snow had fallen in Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior, from October through February, according to the National Weather Service; it averaged about 68 inches of snowfall every ...
In Rapid City, 14.5 inches (37 cm) of snow fell on the 30th, breaking the one-day snowfall record for November. In Duluth, it was the city's heaviest snowstorm in ten years. As the first major winter storm of the season in the northeast, it dumped 22.6 inches (57 cm) of snow in Albany, where it was the heaviest snowfall since the 1993 Superstorm .
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 ]