An early winter storm brought a record snowfall amount, on November 10th, to St. Cloud, Minnesota with 13.2 inches. This is a daily record as well as the most snowfall in any 24 hour period for any November.
St. Cloud, Minnesota ended with a total of 13.5 inches of snowfall for this event.
This storm began to develop across the Dakotas late Sunday evening, and quickly moved east and northeast across southern Minnesota and into central Minnesota and west central Wisconsin by early Monday morning, November 10th. The surface weather map had a developing area of low pressure across Nebraska Sunday evening. This low pressure center moved east-northeast across Iowa, and into the Great Lakes region by Monday night.
Light snow began across west central Minnesota prior to midnight. Another area of light snow developed across south central Minnesota and quickly moved northward across east central and central Minnesota by sunrise. There was a sharp cut off between heavy snowfall, and only an inch or two of snow as this system intensified. There was even a period of sleet and freezing rain on the southern edge of the snowfall which created very icy conditions on area roadways. The mixed precipitation was mainly south of a line from Granite Falls to Litchfield, Buffalo, Anoka and Stillwater, Minnesota. North of this line, heavy snow fell, with the heaviest band from Madison to Willmar, St. Cloud and Rush City. These areas received between a foot and a foot and a half with isolated higher amounts.
Although the worst conditions were between 6 am and noon across west central, central and east central Minnesota, snowfall continued into the afternoon for areas along and north of I-94. The snow began to taper off during the late afternoon, but additional snow started later in the evening with a secondary system moving across the Upper Midwest. However, the bulk of the winter storm fell between 2 am to 3 pm Monday.
Here are a few higher snowfall totals from this snow storm.
16.5 inches at Cambridge.|16.5 inches at St. Augusta.|15.5 inches near North Branch. |15.0 inches northeast of Rush City. |15.0 inches at Starbuck.|14.5 inches east of Princeton. |13.8 inches at Milaca. |13.6 inches north of Kimball. |13.5 inches at St. Cloud.