May Snowstorm Breaks 117-Year-Old Record In Minnesota

(AccuWeather) Brett Rathbun May 10 2019 While the calendar shows its more than six weeks into spring Mother Nature dealt a wintry blow to Minnesota with a winter-like storm that unleashed historic snow amounts in some locations on Wednesday into Thursday. The same storm system that brought an outbreak of severe weather to the South-Central states through the first portion of this week created enough cold air to produce a zone of heavy accumulating snow on its northwestern side. Snow fell along a zone from Sioux Falls South Dakota to Duluth Minnesota. While not accumulating snowflakes even managed to fall in parts of Minneapolis. Through Thursday morning Duluth was blanketed with 10.6 inches of snow for this event and 10.9 inches total for the month leading to a number of broken snowfall records according to data from the National Weather Service. One spot just southwest of Duluth reported 12 inches of snow as of Thursday afternoon.