Listen2 to 3 feet of snow on North Shore; significant accumulations in the Twin Cities
The most ferocious blizzard I can remember in years is still raking the North Shore overnight into Thursday morning.
The combination of a potent winter storm with plenty of moisture, fierce upslope winds rising along higher terrain and lake-enhanced snowfall has dumped 2 to 3 feet along portions of the North Shore.
Hovland, a few miles east of Grand Marais, reports picking up 8 inches of snow in just 3 hours Wednesday afternoon. That’s an incredible snowfall rate of nearly 3 inches per hour, pushing the physical limits of the atmosphere for snowfall rates…