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What is the most inches of snow ever recorded in Minnesota?

What is the most inches of snow ever recorded in Minnesota?

Minnesota Climate Extremes

Temperature Record County
Snow
Maximum 24-hour snowfall 36.0 inches Lake
Maximum single storm snowfall 46.5 inches Lake
Maximum seasonal snowfall 170.5 inches Cook

What was the biggest snowfall total in the world in a day?

What is the most snow ever recorded in one day? The heaviest snowfall ever recorded in a 24-hour period in the U.S. occurred on April 14 and 15, 1921 in Silver Lake, Colorado. During this single day, 6.3 feet of snow fell onto the ground according to Weather.com.

How much snow did we get in the blizzard of 96?

North American blizzard of 1996

Category 5 “Extreme” (RSI/NOAA: 26.37)
Satellite image of the storm system on January 7, 1996
Maximum snowfall or ice accretion 48 inches (120 cm), Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Fatalities 154 fatalities total (another 33 took place during flooding after the storm)
Damage c. US$3 billion

What was the biggest snowfall total in Minnesota in a day?

18.5in.
18.5in. — The one-day record snowfall for Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota was recorded on November 1st, 1991 as seen in the chart below.

What year was the big snow in the 80s?

1982
That is how Margrete Doyle (nee Dinsmore) from Mayobridge in County Down describes the day she was born during the “big snow” of January 1982.

What’s the coldest it’s ever been in Minnesota?

-60 degrees F
February 2,1996 was the coldest instrument-measured temperature on record for the state of Minnesota. A location in St. Louis County, 3 miles south of Tower, recorded -60 degrees F on February 2, 1996. This value ties Minnesota with North Dakota for the all-time record low for a non-mountainous state.

When was the last blizzard in Minnesota?

The last storm to make this list is the April 13-16, 2018 thunder blizzard.