St. Cloud joins Duluth and Brainerd for snowiest season on record
Snowfall records topple this year
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Welcome to the elite snowfall club, St. Cloud.
The Twin Cities National Weather Service office reports that St. Cloud has set the record for the snowiest season on record.
St. Cloud has tallied 88.2 inches of snowfall this season. That breaks the previous record of 87.9 inches set in the winter of 1964-65. It’s also 41 inches — more than 3 feet — above the average snowfall in St. Cloud.
Multiple snowfall records
St. Cloud joins Duluth and Brainerd for the snowiest season on record.
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Duluth has recorded an astounding 139.9 inches of snowfall this season. That’s more than 11 feet. It also breaks the previous record from 1995-96.
Brainerd recorded 89.3 inches of snow this season. That easily breaks the record from 1996-97.
Since season snowfall data is collected at select locations, it’s a logical assumption that most areas across north-central Minnesota set season snowfall records this season.
The Twin Cities remains at the third highest season snowfall total on record with 90.3 inches this season. The record is 98.6 inches during the 1983-84 season.
Relentless storms
Minnesota has been slammed by about 16 significant storms in a 19-week span between Dec. 1 and mid-April. You can see how precipitation and snowfall totals climbed steadily in the Twin Cities so far in 2023 in the lower left part of the graph below.
I can’t remember a snowfall season that has spawned such a relentless and consistent stream of storms for Minnesota.
We’ve gone from severe drought to major flood stages across most of Minnesota in the past five months.
The land of weather whiplash continues to deliver.
Stay tuned.