Clear skies this afternoon are revealing much of the snow-cover across the Northern Plains and upper Midwest... Click on the image below to bring up a loop.
The snow continued through much of this afternoon... And driving into work at 11:30am today was a mess. For some odd reason the city hasn't done so well at cleaning these streets this year. They have not always been great, but this year seems especially bad. The photo to the right shows 17th Ave. on my east approach to 42nd Street this morning. As you can see, roads were very much snow-covered and slick! Our total accumulations (from last night through this afternoon) came to a whopping 8.1 inches, which obliterated the daily record snowfall for December 4th. The old record in Grand Forks was 4.0 inches back in 1926. Fargo also set a record for daily snowfall, receiving 5.9 inches. The previous record for them was also in 1926 with 4.3 inches.
Here's a summary of amounts as received by the Grand Forks NWS as of 3:00pm this afternoon:
SITE SNOWFALL AMOUNT
NORTH DAKOTA
CAVALIER SHERIFF........................6 TO 9 INCHES
PEMBINA SHERIFF.........................6 TO 8 INCHES
RAMSEY SHERIFF..........................6 TO 7 INCHES
WALSH SPOTTER (GRAFTON).................6 TO 8 INCHES
STEELE SHERIFF...............................7 INCHES
TRAILL SHERIFF...............................5 INCHES
CASS SPOTTER (FARGO).........................6 INCHES
CASS SHERIFF.................................4 INCHES
MINNESOTA
KITTSON SHERIFF..............................6 INCHES
ROSEAU SHERIFF...............................6 INCHES
MARSHALL SHERIFF.............................8 INCHES
PENNINGTON SHERIFF......................4 TO 6 INCHES
RED LAKE SHERIFF.............................6 INCHES
BELTRAMI SHERIFF.............................3 INCHES
POLK SPOTTER (CROOKSTON)................5 TO 7 INCHES
POLK SPOTTER (FOSSTON)..................2 TO 3 INCHES
LAKE OF THE WOODS SPOTTER(WILLIAMS)........0.5 INCHES
NORMAN SHERIFF..........................5 TO 6 INCHES
CLAY SHERIFF............................3 TO 5 INCHES
WILKIN SHERIFF...............................2 INCHES
OTTERTAIL SHERIFF............................6 INCHES
GRANT SHERIFF................................2 INCHES
MAHNOMEN SHERIFF........................4 TO 5 INCHES
WADENA SHERIFF...............................4 INCHES
HUBBARD......................................5 INCHES
CLEARWATER..............................5 TO 6 INCHES
OTTERTAIL SPOTTER(NEW YORK MILLS).......4 TO 5 INCHES
CLEARWATER SPOTTER(LOWER RICE)...............6 INCHES
BECKER COUNTY(PONSFORD)......................4 INCHES
An addition to the 4-8 inches that was received around the area this past weekend, an on-going Alberta Clipper is bringing additional snowfall to the region this morning.
The Grand Forks NWS issued this just minutes ago:
1030 AM CST TUE DEC 4 2007
..HEAVY SNOW WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
HEAVY SNOW WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS
AFTERNOON. THE SNOW ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON
IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. TOTAL
ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 6 TO 8 INCHES BEFORE THE SNOW
TAPERS OFF BY THIS EVENING. ROADS ARE SNOW COVERED AND
SLIPPERY AND THIS SITUATION WILL NOT IMPROVE DURING THE
AFTERNOON HOURS... SO BE SURE TO ADEQUATELY PREPARE FOR THE
AFTERNOON DRIVE HOME AND CARRY YOUR WINTER WEATHER SURVIVAL
KIT.
For more information on winter weather advisories, please visit your local NWS web-site.
In other news, it also appears that records were set for snowfall during the 24 hours of Saturday, December 1st. Both at the Grand Forks Int'l Airport and at Hector (in Fargo):
...RECORD PRECIPITATION AND SNOW FALL SET AT
HECTOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN FARGO AND GRAND FORKS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...
A RECORD SNOWFALL AND PRECIPITATION FELL AT HECTOR
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR DECEMBER 1. THE 0.67 INCHES
OF PRECIPITATION AND 7.4 INCHES OF SNOW RECEIVED BROKE
THE PREVIOUS RECORDS OF 0.48 INCHES SET IN 1909 AND 2.8
INCHES SET IN 1985. RECORDS AT HECTOR INTERNATIONAL
DATE BACK TO 1881.
A RECORD SNOWFALL AND PRECIPITATION FELL AT GRAND FORKS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR DECEMBER 1. THE 0.18 INCHES OF
PRECIPITATION AND 6.4 INCHES OF SNOW RECEIVED BROKE THE
PREVIOUS RECORDS OF 0.07 INCHES SET IN 1972 AND 0.7
INCHES SET IN 1990. RECORDS AT GRAND FORKS INTERNATIONAL
DATE BACK TO 1941.
For those of you that are curious, here is a final tally on snow totals from this past weekend's snowfall:
..WEEKEND STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL REPORTS
THE FOLLOWING TOTALS ARE FOR BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AND ARE
BASED ON REPORTS FROM SPOTTERS...COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.
SITE SNOWFALL AMOUNT
NORTH DAKOTA
MANTADOR...............................8.0 INCHES
HAVANA.................................8.0 INCHES
LIDGERWOOD.............................8.0 INCHES
WAHPETON/BRECKENRIDGE..................8.0 INCHES EST
FARGO/MOORHEAD.........................7.6 INCHES
FORMAN.................................7.0 INCHES
LISBON.................................6.7 INCHES
STARKWEATHER...........................6.5 INCHES
GRAND FORKS NWS........................6.1 INCHES
FINLEY.................................6.0 INCHES EST
MAYVILLE...............................6.0 INCHES EST
VALLEY CITY............................5.5 INCHES
BINFORD................................5.5 INCHES EST
PEMBINA................................5.3 INCHES
LANKIN.................................5.0 INCHES
MCVILLE................................5.0 INCHES EST
LANGDON................................5.0 INCHES
COOPERSTOWN............................4.5 INCHES
DEVILS LAKE............................4.0 INCHES EST
CAVALIER...............................3.0 INCHES
EDMORE.................................3.5 INCHES
SARLES POINT OF ENTRY..................3.0 INCHES
HANSBORO...............................3.0 INCHES
MINNESOTA
WADENA................................11.0 INCHES
NEW YORK MILLS.........................9.5 INCHES
PARK RAPIDS............................9.5 INCHES EST
BEMIDJI................................9.0 INCHES
ITASCA.................................9.0 INCHES
SEBEKA.................................9.0 INCHES
ELBOW LAKE.............................9.0 INCHES EST
MAHNOMEN...............................8.5 INCHES EST
LONG LOST LAKE.........................8.5 INCHES
FERGUS FALLS...........................8.5 INCHES EST
FOSSTON................................8.5 INCHES EST
BLACKDUCK..............................8.0 INCHES
HALSTAD................................8.0 INCHES
PHELPS MILL............................8.0 INCHES
DETROIT LAKES..........................8.0 INCHES EST
SABIN..................................8.0 INCHES
BRECKENRIDGE...........................8.0 INCHES EST
DALTON.................................7.8 INCHES
MOORHEAD...............................7.6 INCHES
PELICAN RAPIDS.........................7.5 INCHES
RED LAKE FALLS.........................7.1 INCHES
ROTHSAY................................7.0 INCHES
CROOKSTON..............................7.0 INCHES EST
LANCASTER..............................5.6 INCHES
ARGYLE.................................5.1 INCHES
WARROAD................................5.0 INCHES
WASKISH................................5.0 INCHES
WARROAD 4W.............................4.6 INCHES
GREENBUSH..............................3.5 INCHES
Snow is continuing across much of the upper Midwest this afternoon. The snow didn't pan out as heavy here in our area, but it still has been snowing all day. There was some light snow out there before I went to bed this morning around 8:00pm and it's still coming down out there.
Here are some preliminary amounts from around the area as of 2:00pm:
Additional reports of snow further south over eastern South Dakota have amounts from 5-7 inches with amounts generally in the 4-6 inch range across Minnesota. Southern areas of Minnesota and a large portion of Nebraska and Iowa have received appreciable amounts of ice and sleet. Some of the reports I've been looking through have anywhere from a quarter to a half inch of ice with some areas getting nearly 3 inches of sleet. That just sounds nasty!SITE SNOWFALL AMOUNTS
KFGO 3.5 INCHES
WALSH COUNTY 1.5 INCHES
GRIGGS COUNTY 3.0 INCHES
TRAILL COUNTY 3.0 INCHES
KITTSON COUNTY 1.0 INCHES
ROSEAU COUNTY 1.5 INCHES
HAVANA 3.5 INCHES
NORMAN COUNTY 4.0 INCHES
CLEARWATER 2.0 INCHES
BELTRAMI 3.5 INCHES
MAHNOMEN 3.5 INCHES
CLAY 3 TO 4 INCHES
BECKER 3.0 INCHES
WILKIN 3.0 INCHES
OTTERTAIL 4 TO 6 INCHES
WADENA 5 TO 6 INCHES
HUBBARD 3.0 INCHES
POLK 3 TO 4 INCHES
PENNINGTON 2 TO 3 INCHES
MARSHALL 2.0 INCHES
RAMSEY 1 TO 2 INCHES
GRAND FORKS 2 TO 3 INCHES
So, those of us here in Grand Forks, it could be much worse!
Stay safe!
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