Norman Roloff and his best friend, Sonny Ehlers, used to get together every Armistice Day and toast their good fortune. They weren't, after all, dead. On the afternoon of Nov. 11, 1940, the men were ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze to ...

WINONA, Minn. - Norman Roloff and his best friend, Sonny Ehlers, used to get together every Armistice Day and toast their good fortune. They weren't, after all, dead. On the afternoon of Nov. 11, 1940 ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze to ...

Duck hunting had been a little slow in the fall of 1940. That year, November 11, Armistice Day—renamed Veterans Day in 1954—fell on a Monday, so hunters were out taking advantage of a three-day ...

Herb sent a note asking about the great Armistice Day storm of 1940. Of course this is the time of year when big contrasts of temperature sometimes provide the breeding ground for early season winter ...

In the wake of that storm and another deadly blizzard the following spring, the Weather Bureau bowed to political pressure from Gov. Harold Stassen and gave states jurisdiction over their forecasts ...

Sunday, 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 kept a ...

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Area residents who did not have to venture out on icy roads Wednesday, which was Veterans Day, probably were thinking of the unseasonably warm temperatures they had basked in earlier this month.

“Worst early season blizzard in history,” a writer to The Free Press once recalled. Was that person recalling the Halloween Blizzard of 1991, as many others did on the 30th anniversary of the storm?