It seems winter wanted to hang out one more time before we officially started seeing spring, so the Sioux Empire got an injection of cold and snow over the weekend. It felt more like the Ides of January rather than March.
It’s not unusual for Sioux Falls to get a blast of winter in March or April. But that doesn’t make the storm this past weekend any less of a pain in the rear.
Looking at theNational Weather Service data, we see that most areas received at least four inches of snow this past weekend.
Here are some snowfall totals on March 16, 2025:
| 1 N Marshall, MN | 8 |
| 5 S Cottonwood, MN | 7.7 |
| 1 SSW Slayton, MN | 7.7 |
| 3 NE Crooks, SD | 7 |
| 3 NE Tea, SD | 6.7 |
| 1 NNW Canton, SD | 6.5 |
| 2 SE Balaton, MN | 6.3 |
| 2 S Brookings, SD | 6 |
| Montrose, SD | 5.5 |
| Edgerton, MN | 5.5 |
| De Smet, SD | 5.3 |
| 1 SSE Madison, SD | 5.3 |
| 4 WNW Rowena, SD | 5.1 |
| Aurora, SD | 5 |
| Sibley, IA | 4.7 |
| 1 SSE Sioux Falls, SD | 4.5 |
| 1 NNE Harrisburg, SD | 4.1 |
| 3 N Sioux Falls, SD | 4.1 |
| Brookings, SD | 4 |
| Flandreau, SD | 4 |
| 4 S Sioux Falls, SD | 3.7 |
| 4 SE Bruce, SD | 3.5 |
| 5 W Garretson, SD | 3.5 |
| Hartford, SD | 3.5 |
| Hills, MN | 3.4 |
| Castlewood, SD | 3.2 |
| Sheldon, IA | 3 |
| 6 NW Montrose, SD | 3 |
| 1 E Letcher, SD | 2.5 |
| 1 N Rock Rapids, IA | 1.5 |
How Much Snow Does Sioux Falls Get Each Year?
Sioux Falls averages around 44 inches of snow a year. Sioux Falls’s snowiest winter saw 94.7 inches of snow blanket the town. That was the winter of 1968-69. Earlier in the 1960s, we had the second-snowiest winter with just under 80 inches of snow…