3.01.2024

Where Winter took the winter off

Snow and ice are a way of life here. See how a lost winter upended that.

Lake ice too thin to support pickup trucks

Earlier recent winters in Duluth (from WDIO Radio):
2020-2021 brought 76.4” of snow to Duluth, which was a good foot below our normal 90.2”. The next year was just a touch above average with 93.4”.

Then there was the season of 2022-2023, the snowiest winter on record in Duluth coming in 140.1”. That’s almost twelve feet!

The strange and winterless winter continued into January of 2024, which started warm, ended even warmer, and had a middle 10-day period with the only winter-like weather since December 1st. It was dry, and nearly snowless in many areas, although our brief, wintry interlude did bring a couple snowfall events to parts of the state.

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