Hottest year ever update: Record snow and three feet of lake ice in Minnesota

Record snowfalls continue to hammer northern Minnesota

Northern Minnesota residents are bracing for a storm Sunday that’s expected to dump 4 to 7 more inches of snow on Duluth and Brainerd and 10 inches on Bemidji, a drubbing that would make this the area’s second snowiest April — with the month just half over.

It follows a record-setting 13 inches of snow Thursday and Friday that contributed to more than 40 accidents and spinouts, killing two people in Duluth.
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But this year, winter is wearing out its welcome, dumping nearly 100 inches of snow on Duluth and leaving lakes such as Itasca and Lake of the Woods covered with 3 feet of ice.