Snowfall Records Shattered in Minnesota and North Dakota

By On October 4, 2012 · 8 Comments
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Almost double previous record in Grand Forks and other areas.

“An early season snow event produced significant snow amounts for northeast North Dakota into northwest Minnesota for early October,” says NOAA.  ”The heaviest snow fell in Roseau county where around a foot of heavy wet snow has been reported as of 3 pm Thursday October 4. This heavy wet snow has also produced numerous power outages across this area.”

“These snow amounts appear to be record amounts for this early in the season for many areas. The previous record snowfall for October 4 or earlier at the NWS in Grand Forks was 2 inches on October 2, 1950. The NWS at Grand Forks reported 3.5 inches of snow with this storm on October 4, 2012. While records from around the area indicate that the October 2, 1950 storm produced about 2-5 inches around the region with localized higher amounts, with Leeds, ND receiving 7.0 inches on October 2, 1950, and Hallock 4.5 inches.”

…PRELIMINARY SNOWFALL REPORTS FROM THE AREA…

ESTIMATED MAXIMUM SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS AS OF 3PM:

NORTH DAKOTA MAX DEPTH

PEMBINA (PEMBINA CO.) 4 INCHES

LANKIN (WALSH CO.) 3 INCHES

PARK RIVER (WALSH CO.) 2 INCHES

MICHIGAN (NELSON CO.) 3.3 INCHES

GRAND FORKS (GF CO.) 3.5 INCHES

2SE MAYVILLE (TRAILL CO.) 3 INCHES

FARGO (CASS CO.) 1 INCH (VARIABLE 1-2)

MINNESOTA

HALLOCK (KITTSON CO.) 4 INCHES

KARSLSTAD (KITTSON CO.) 6 INCHES

2W BADGER (ROSEAU CO.) 12 INCHES

10NNW BADGER (ROSEAU CO.) 14 INCHES

ROSEAU (ROSEAU CO.) 7 INCHES

STEPHEN (MARSHALL CO.) 5 INCHES

MIDDLE RIVER (MARSHALL CO.) 8 INCHES (VARIABLE 4-8)

GRYGLA (MARSHALL CO.) 3 INCHES

THIEF RIVER FALLS 4 INCHES (VARIABLE 3-6)

(PENNINGTON CO.)

RED LAKE FALLS 4 INCHES

(RED LAKE CO.)

3S ANGUS (POLK CO.) 8 INCHES (VARIABLE 4-8)

3SE CROOKSTON (POLK CO.) 6 INCHES

ADA (NORMAN CO.) 4 INCHES (VARIABLE 3-4)

MOORHEAD (CLAY CO.) 1.4 INCHES (AS OF 7AM)

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=fgf&storyid=87914&source=0

Thanks to Chuck Clancy and Ralph Fato for this link

 

 
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8 Responses to Snowfall Records Shattered in Minnesota and North Dakota

  1. Josh says:
    October 4, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    Winter storm watch for southeast Wyoming including city of Cheyenne: AREAS ALONG THE LARAMIE RANGE AND DIRECTLY
    EAST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE COULD SEE SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/prodsByState.php?state=WY&prodtype=special

  2. Kirk says:
    October 4, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    Notice how NOAA goes out of its way to downplay this early snowstorm by referencing the snow event that hit the same area in October 1950.

    This is par for the course: Any weather anomaly that contradicts the AGW meme is downplayed or ignored by the warmist climastrologists at NOAA and NASA. The perpetuation of the AGW fantasy is all important in terms of research grants and job security.

  3. mr tall says:
    October 5, 2012 at 1:08 am

    I noticed the same thing Kirk did; analysis of the language in that NOAA brief is extremely revealing. There is a vagueness; a ‘seen-it-all-before’ quality; a subtle undercurrent of preemptive scolding for anyone who might look up at the falling flakes and wonder . . . .

    It’s also telling that this NOAA office won’t just come out and announce that these snowfall amounts are outright records; instead they hedge with ‘appear to be record amounts’. Is that kind of language ever used if it’s hot?

    The Grand Forks office also posted an article before the snow fell titled ‘Early snows not unheard of’, which engaged in even more blatant perception-managing, e.g. ‘measurable snow is not at all uncommon in early October’. That article is still up on their site.

  4. Rhys Jaggar says:
    October 5, 2012 at 1:35 am

    It’ll melt!

  5. Nathan Brazil says:
    October 5, 2012 at 10:16 am

    I was amazed to see a 15 second video story about this snowstorm on NBC Nightly News last night. The spin started with the story’s opening words: “This happens in October…” and the closing referred to temperatures in the 80s up and down the East coast, for “balance” I imagine. Funny how they forgot to balance the past heatwave in the SE U.S. by mentioning the record cold in the Pacific Northwest last summer. It was all done in a slightly humorous tone. Isn’t nature quirky? Nothing unusual here, move along…

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/ Look for a small video clip near the bottom of the page.

  6. ES says:
    October 5, 2012 at 10:35 am

    The storm moved north to Manitoba yesterday and walloped them, and now has moved to northern Ontario and is starting to die out.

    http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/snowstorm-wallops-southern-manitoba-offers-relief-in-wildfire-fight-1.982243

  7. John says:
    October 5, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    After this winter we should see more climate charlatans drop under the radar as the proof hits them between the eyes that the planet is cooling.


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