ST. PAUL, Minn. – Anybody who went through the Halloween blizzard doesn’t forget it. Those are the words of Pete Boulay with the Minnesota State Climatology Office talking about the historic snowstorm that began on Oct. 31, 1991.
He says Minnesota had a swath of 12″ to 20″-plus of snow anywhere from south central Minnesota right through the Twin Cities and on up into Duluth and the Arrowhead.
In the Twin Cities, it remains the biggest snowstorm on record with 28.4″, and many places in the state got well over a foot. Boulay says several inches fell on Halloween night while kids were trick-or-treating, but most of the snowfall came on Nov. 1.
While the storm pounded large portions of Minnesota, North Dakota dodged most of it. The National Weather Service in Grand Forks does say the day that storm started, Oct. 31, 1991, it was cold. The high in Fargo was 9.
