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The storm delivered record-challenging snowfall totals to areas from North Dakota to Nevada, including Bismarck, where 10 inches of snowfall on Tuesday buried the old daily record of 3 inches set ...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Nearly a foot of snow buried parts of North Dakota on Thursday as the region's first wintry weather of the season swept through the Rockies and into the northern Plains ...
The late-season snow has piled up so high that it is setting records. Nestled between the United States-Canada border and the North Dakota capital of Bismarck, the city of Minot, North Dakota, is ...
The additional snow at Bismarck (17.5 inches), brought the season snowfall total to 101.4 inches. This set an all-time seasonal snowfall record for Bismarck, which still stands today. Blizzard of March 2-5, 1966 One of the most severe blizzards on record to impact the Northern Plains occurred 50 years ago between March 2-5 of 1966.
The earlier part of the decade was documented for heavy snowfall as the snowiest winter on record in Bismarck was the winter of 1996–97, when 101.6 inches (258 cm) of snow fell. The decade was noted for heavy rainfall as well as 4.63 inches (117.6 mm) of rain fell, the most rain ever received in a standard 24-hour day, on August 21, 1998.
Bismarck, North Dakota, sank to −10 °F (−23 °C) on October 31, breaking their previous record low of 6 °F (−14 °C) by 16 degrees. [8] Record snow and cold was recorded as far south as Nebraska and Colorado. [9] [10] The Arctic air also spread over Chicago, recording a low of 11 on November 4. [11] [12]
Bismarck, the state's capital, received 17.5 inches of snowfall over the course of three days, boosting the season snowfall to an all-time record of 101.4 inches that still stands as of 2022.
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972. [2]