Reprinted with permission.) More than 150 people lost their lives in the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940, 49 from Minnesota. Most causalities were from exposure – duck hunters unprepared for the ...

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. 11 ...