Snow reports from southern Minnesota

A winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow across parts of southern Minnesota from Friday into Saturday.

According to the National Weather Service, a weather spotter in Cottonwood County, north of Heron Lake, reported 15 inches of snow.

Spotters in Mapleton and Avoca reported 12.5 inches.

There was a sharp cut-off to the snowfall; most of the Twin Cities metro area saw only a dusting of snow.

Other snow reports relayed by the Weather Service on Friday and Saturday included:

  1. 12 inches — Winnebago, Brownsdale

  2. 11.8 inches — Austin

  3. 11 inches — Manchester, Harmony, Spring Valley

  4. 10.8 inches — Windom

  5. 10.5 inches — Albert Lea

  6. 10.2 inches — Hardwick

  7. 10 inches — Sherburn, Grand Meadow

  8. 9 inches — Granada, Blue Earth

  9. 8.5 inches — New Richland

  10. 8.4 inches — Stewartville

  11. 8 inches — Amboy, Ellendale

  12. 7.1 inches — Chatfield

  13. 6.5 inches — Rochester

  14. 6.2 inches — Preston

  15. 6 inches — Hayfield, Worthington, Fairmont, St. James

  16. 5.7 inches — Owatonna

  17. 5 inches — Redwood Falls

  18. 4.9 inches — La Crescent

  19. 4.6 inches — New Ulm

  20. 4 inches — Oronoco, Mantorville, Marshall, Montevideo

  21. 3.5 inches — New Prague, Faribault, Le Center, Canby

  22. 2.5 inches — Northfield

  23. 2.1 inches — Lakeville

  24. 2 inches — Prior Lake, Red Wing

  25. 1.7 inches — Hutchinson

  26. 1.1 inches — Waconia

  27. 0.2 inches — Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport

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