By Kristin Holtz, Correspondent Nov. 11, 1940, was an unseasonably warm fall morning. Across Minnesota duck hunters climbed into their boats to take advantage of the misty, 40-degree weather. By ...

Nov. 10, 1940: “41 degrees and dampness all day.” Monday, Nov. 11, 1940: “Turning into an old-time snowstorm … the worst storm since Oct. 14, 1880.” Andrew Anderson of Hutchinson ...

The second week of November has a long history of powerful storms in the nation’s midsection, including the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald storm and the 1940 Armistice Day blizzard. But on Nov.