The Kansas City area is digging out after a winter storm dumped nearly a foot of snow across much of the metro.
The storm, accompanied by howling winds that brought blizzard conditions and drifting snow to the area, made travel impossible in some areas, prompted schools to cancel classes and shut down governments on Monday.
So, how much snow fell?
The final snowfall total Sunday at Kansas City International Airport was 11 inches, which broke the previous record for that date of 10.1 inches set in 1962, according to the National Weather Service.
The snowfall was also Kansas City’s fourth largest single-day snowfall on record, dating back to 1888. The Top 3 were 16.1 inches on March 23, 1912, 11.8 inches on Jan. 18, 1962, and Feb. 27, 1900.
It is extremely rare for the metro to have more than 10 inches of snow on a single day. Before Sunday, it only occurred seven other times during the city’s 137 years of recorded weather history.
“Many major snowstorms occur across 2 different calendar days,” the weather service said on X, formerly Twitter. “So if we go by entire snowfall events, this would be tied for 12th largest on record, and largest since 2/24-25/1993.”