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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It was November 11 and 12, 1940 and an unusually warm day as duck hunters all over the Midwest set off for a day in the woods. Little did they know a storm was brewing and within hours, they would be ...

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 ...

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“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?

Tales of the Armistice Day Blizzard are like Homeric legends passed on from generation to generation in Minnesota. Though the snow totals were dwarfed by the 1991 Halloween snowstorm, the blizzard ...