Winter Storm Astro dumped the season's first snow in Bismarck, North Dakota Sunday, with 3.2 inches measured at the National Weather Service office. This first snow in North Dakota's capital city arrived about two weeks later than average. Up to 7 inches had accumulated in North Dakota, as of late Monday morning.
Webster, South Dakota, chalked up the state's heaviest total (
8 inches) and patchy freezing drizzle had deposited a thin layer of ice on roads in parts of northern South Dakota. Parts of western and central Minnesota had measured up to
13 inches of snow as of early Monday afternoon.
The 13-inch total came from Kimball, near St. Cloud. Dr. Bob Weisman at St. Cloud State University had reported 7 inches of snow. Meteorologist reported 8.5 inches of snow had fallen in Forest Lake, Minnesota, a far northern suburb of the Twin Cities, as of 2 p.m. Monday.
Up to 9 inches of snow blanketed parts of southern and eastern Montana, including Red Lodge (9 inches), Glasgow (6 inches) and Glendive (4 inches). The Whitefish Ski Resort's Big Mountain Summit tallied 14 inches of snow in far northwest Montana. Drifts up to 2 feet around buildings were observed near Brusett, in northeast Montana.
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