The week is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to avoid them. It's also a great time to make and practice your emergency plan and build or refresh your emergency preparedness kit.
The week is designed to refresh, remind and educate everyone about the seasonal threats from severe weather and how to avoid them. It's also a great time to make and practice your emergency plan and build or refresh your emergency preparedness kit.
Here are the latest Climate Prediction Center outlooks.
Minnesota Winter Weather Awareness week
Overall we can most likely expect more of a typical Northern Plains winter when compared to the high snow totals of 2022-23 and the winter that wasn't of 2023-24. While finer scale details of things such as how many storms or how much snow are well beyond the scope of this outlook this is meant as a starting point for planning how to prepare for the winter season of 2024-25.
Event Summary for the March 24th through March 27th Heavy Snowfall Event.
Monthly Weather and Climate Review
Summary of two blizzards on January 11th and 13th 2024.
A major ice storm brought significant impacts to portions of the Northern Plains December 25-27, 2023. Here is the event summary for eastern North Dakota into northwest and west-central Minnesota. This webpage will be updated as information is collected over the next few weeks.
Here is the event summary of the October 25-27, 20223, early season heavy snow storm across portions of North Dakota into northwest Minnesota.
Surface low pressure system tracked across the North Dakota/South Dakota border creating an environment supporting the threat for low top supercells in Southeastern North Dakota into adjacent West Central Minnesota.
Storms produced severe weather within portions of the southern Red River Valley into portions of northwest and west-central Minnesota on July 13, 2023, including significant hail ranging from golf balls in the Fargo-Moorhead metro area to tennis and baseball sized hail southeast of Moorhead, MN, near Sabin into lakes country of west-central Minnesota.
This is the event summary for the heavy snow and blizzard that occurred across the region March 12 and 13 2023.
This is the event summary for the heavy snow event that occurred in the southern Red River Valley into west-central Minnesota between Feb 28 and Mar 1 2023.
Severe thunderstorms developed across eastern ND and moved northeast across the region on June 17th. Strong winds from the storms resulted in damaged trees and structures across the region. This page will be updated as more information becomes available.
A clipper system moved through the area on Sunday, bringing snow totals of 4 inches or more to much of the area with some locations receiving upwards of 6+ inches.
A strong winter storm brought a light glaze of ice and heavy snow to much of North Dakota and Minnesota on Saturday November 30, 2019.
A crippling blizzard impacted central and eastern North Dakota and the Red River Valley on October 10-12, 2019. There were widespread road closures (including I-29, I-94, and US Hwy 2) and up to 3 feet of snow fell in parts of North Dakota.
Rainfall began in the PM hours of September 28th and continued off and on into the morning hours of the 30th.
This summary takes a closer look at the September 20-21, 2019 severe weather episode.
Severe weather event summary for September 2, 2019. All of the severe storm reports are preliminary. Wind was the predominant form of severe weather reported, especially in the Lisbon and Fargo-Moorhead areas.
Heavy rainfall is expected for portions of the region late tonight through early Monday with cooler than normal temperatures developing late in the work week and over Labor Day weekend.
A strong Winter Storm and Blizzard struck most of eastern North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota on February 6th and 7th. This event summary takes a closer look at the event.
A band of heavy snow set up in eastern North Dakota and parts of far northwest Minnesota on October 10 and the morning of October 11 with reports of over a foot of snow!
While most locations in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota received light snow, a swath of heavier snow fell along a line from south of Devils Lake, through Hillsboro and Halstad, to just north of Park Rapids.
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