Dear Tom,
While the Halloween 1991 "Perfect Storm" was raging in the Atlantic, Minneapolis was hit with a major snowstorm. Were the storms related?
--Rick Mullin
Dear Rick,
Though occurring half acontinent apart, the storms, though separate entities, were related. The "Perfect Storm" made famous by Sebastian Junger's novel and the movie raked the Eastern Seaboard from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, 1991. At the same time an equally amazing storm was bringing record snowfall to Minnesota. From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 the blinding snowstorm dropped 28.4 inches of snow on the Twin Cities, a single storm record. Duluth was buried by 36.9 inches, the largest storm total in Minnesota history. Because of the strength of the Atlantic storm, the Midwest storm could not move east and was forced north, prolonging the snow in Minnesota.
While the Halloween 1991 "Perfect Storm" was raging in the Atlantic, Minneapolis was hit with a major snowstorm. Were the storms related?
--Rick Mullin
Dear Rick,
Though occurring half acontinent apart, the storms, though separate entities, were related. The "Perfect Storm" made famous by Sebastian Junger's novel and the movie raked the Eastern Seaboard from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, 1991. At the same time an equally amazing storm was bringing record snowfall to Minnesota. From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 the blinding snowstorm dropped 28.4 inches of snow on the Twin Cities, a single storm record. Duluth was buried by 36.9 inches, the largest storm total in Minnesota history. Because of the strength of the Atlantic storm, the Midwest storm could not move east and was forced north, prolonging the snow in Minnesota.
