A large area of low pressure moved across the Upper Midwest in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday, bringing a storm with three distinct phases. The first phase occurred on the 21-22nd with widespread snowfall across the region of 3 to 7 inches.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.
A large area of low pressure moved across the Upper Midwest in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday, bringing a storm with three distinct phases. The first phase occurred on the 21-22nd with widespread snowfall across the region of 3 to 7 inches. Higher amounts to around a foot were recorded along the North Shore in southern Cook County due to lake enhancement and orographic effects. Later phases of the storm included dangerous wind chills and blizzard conditions.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 21, 6:03 AM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
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4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall of 4 to 6 inches was received across the northern part of the county with a high report of 7 inches near Tamarack.
Most of the southern part of the county saw snowfall totals less than 6 inches, but areas in the far southeastern corner of the county did receive 7.8 inches south-southwest of Finlayson.
Snowfall of 4 to 6 inches was received across the county with a high report of 7.8 inches near Finlayson.
Snowfall totals varied greatly across the southern part of the county with reports ranging from 3 to 11 inches. A high report of 12 inches was reported near Tofte.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, December 2022
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1071547, 1071548, 1071549, 1071546.