A blizzard of exceptional magnitude was howling across the upper Midwest, catching everyone unprepared. More than 150 people lost their lives in the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940, 49 from Minnesota.
The second week of November has a long history of powerful storms in the nation’s midsection, including the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald storm and the 1940 Armistice Day blizzard. But on Nov. 11 ...
That destruction is considered the fifth most significant Minnesota weather event of the 20th century, following the 1930s drought, the 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard, the 1991 Halloween Blizzard and ...