Nearly 70 years later, the memory lives on…

This week is Winter Weather Awareness Week. It’s hard to think about the hazards of winter weather when the mercury continues to stay at or above 50°. But, as we hardy Midwesterners know, the weather can change on a dime. And it did just that in 1940. On November 11, 1940, one of the deadliest blizzards in U.S. history struck the Upper Midwest. The “Armistice Day Storm” still resonates in the minds of those who survived it and in the folklore of the Upper Midwest. Here are a couple of links that detail this ferocious storm. The first comes from an article I found from Minnesota Public Radio from 2000. Go to http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/200011/10_steilm_blizzard-m/ for a really good accounting of the storm. The second, comes from the National Weather Service in La Crosse. This link takes you to an article that focuses more on the weather system that produced the blizzard. You can find that link at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/events/armistice.php

Talk to you later!

Cory