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How much snow? Reports from northern Minnesota from Thursday-Friday winter storm

Traffic moves along a snowy highway
Traffic moves along State Highway 61 amid snowy conditions on the North Shore near Schroeder, Minn., on Friday.
Minnesota Department of Transportation

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The first round of a one-two punch of winter storms in Minnesota dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of the North Shore from Thursday into Friday.

As of midday Friday, the top snow total was 14 inches at Hovland in Cook County. Hovland also received more than 40 inches of snow in a winter storm last month.

Other totals reported to the National Weather Service from the Thursday-Friday blizzard are listed below.

Central and southern Minnesota are in line to see heavy snow from the next winter storm, forecast to arrive over the coming weekend.

March 12-13 snow totals

  • 14 inches — Hovland

  • 12.6 inches — Grand Marais

  • 12 inches — Silver Bay

  • 11 inches — Fond du Lac, Esko

  • 10.3 inches — Hackensack

  • 10 inches — Two Harbors

  • 9.6 inches — Mahtowa

  • 9.5 inches — Duluth (Lester Park)

  • 9.3 inches — Duluth airport

  • 9 inches — French River, Barnum, Duquette

  • 8.8 inches — Holyoke

  • 8.7 inches — Lutsen

  • 8.5 inches — Sawbill Lake, Tower

  • 8.3 inches — Brimson

  • 8.2 inches — Poplar Lake

  • 8 inches — Wales, Knife River, Kerrick, Tamarack

  • 7.9 inches — Fredenberg

  • 7.5 inches — Makinen, Payne, Park Rapids

  • 7.4 inches — Chisholm

  • 7.2 inches — Grand Rapids, Libby

  • 7 inches — International Falls, Cook, Embarrass

  • 6.8 inches — Finland, Coleraine

  • 6.5 inches — Hibbing, Sturgeon Lake, Bena

  • 6.2 inches — Cloquet

  • 6.1 inches — Wright

  • 6 inches — Bovey, Blackberry, Hoyt Lakes, Biwabik, Celina, Nevis

  • 5.9 inches — Pontoria

  • 5.8 inches — Kabetogama, Jenkins

  • 5.6 inches — Northome

  • 5.5 inches — Silica, Kettle River, Crookston

  • 5.3 inches — Duxbury

  • 5 inches — Bemidji, Cohasset, Friesland, Gowan, Robinson

  • 4.8 inches — Ely, Zemple, Finlayson

  • 4.5 inches — Cass Lake

  • 4.4 inches — Isle

  • 4 inches — Leader, Warroad

  • 3.5 inches — Brainerd

  • 3 inches — Baxter, Rush City

  • 2.8 inches — Detroit Lakes

  • 2.1 inches — Onamia