Duluth, Minnesota, Shatters May Snowfall Records

Duluth, a port city on Lake Superior and home to about 86,000 residents, received 10.6 inches of snow Wednesday afternoon into Thursday morning, easily making it the city's heaviest snowstorm for May in records back to 1884. Duluth's previous record May snowstorm was 5.7 inches May 2-5, 1954.

Most of the snow – 8.3 inches – fell late Wednesday, making it the snowiest single May day on record there.

The city's May total, which includes a dusting of snow on May 1 (0.3 inches), is up to 10.9 inches. That tops the previous record of 8.1 inches in 1954.

Several other locations in Minnesota's Arrowhead and far northern Wisconsin also picked up more than a half foot of snow.

This snow whitened the ground almost exactly seven months after Duluth's first accumulating snow of the 2018-19 season, which fell Oct. 10-11.

Oddly, Duluth has now received more snow in May than in January (10.4 inches) and March (6.7 inches).

This snowstorm didn't set Duluth's record for latest accumulating snow. That was set May 27-28, 1965, when the city picked up an inch of snow.