Norman Roloff and his best friend, Sonny Ehlers, used to get together every Armistice Day and toast their good fortune. They weren't, after all, dead. On the afternoon of Nov. 11, 1940, the men were ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze to ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze to ...

In the wake of that storm and another deadly blizzard the following spring, the Weather Bureau bowed to political pressure from Gov. Harold Stassen and gave states jurisdiction over their forecasts ...

Duck hunting had been a little slow in the fall of 1940. That year, November 11, Armistice Day—renamed Veterans Day in 1954—fell on a Monday, so hunters were out taking advantage of a three-day ...

Herb sent a note asking about the great Armistice Day storm of 1940. Of course this is the time of year when big contrasts of temperature sometimes provide the breeding ground for early season winter ...

Blizzard: November 1940 Wind blows snow along Fourth Street in Sioux City on Nov. 11, 1940. Temperatures fell as much as 30 degrees in two hours that day. Jan. 12, 1888: The blizzard “hit with a ...

Tales of the Armistice Day Blizzard are like Homeric legends passed on from generation to generation in Minnesota. Though the snow totals were dwarfed by the 1991 Halloween snowstorm, the blizzard ...

There’s an old saying that rings true, “If you don’t like the weather in Minnesota, wait until tomorrow.” No one can deny that Minnesota weather can be volatile. At the drop of a hat, a frigid spring ...