North Dakota gets blizzard on top of Dec.'s record snow
And, forecasters said a blast of cold air was on the way that could send the thermometer as low as 30 below zero.
Travel was discouraged in the central and western parts of North Dakota because of drifting snow, whipped up by high winds, made the visibility almost zero. While the travel advisory was lifted by midday, new advisories were posted in the southeastern part of the state.
No injuries were reported.
The Minot area got 6 inches of snow, on top of about a foot late last week, while Bismarck picked up another 4 inches.
Wind gusts of around 60 mph were reported in southwestern North Dakota and 51 mph in Bismarck. Eastern Montana was rattled with gusts of up to 70 mph, meteorologist Bill Abeling said, but that area did not have as much snow.
As the system moved eastward, blizzard or near-blizzard conditions were expected in parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. In Iowa, forecasters said 2 to 4 inches of new snow will bring totals since the weekend to nearly a foot in some places, and wind gusts could top 40 mph.
"We'd like to figure out a way to send the bad weather back up north," Abeling said.
Bismarck, Fargo and Grand Forks all broke snow records for December, each with more than 30 inches.
Meanwhile, residents of the Midwest and Northeast dug out after their own tussles with weekend storms.
Most residents in New England heeded the authorities' warnings to stay off roads after the storm dumped up to 9 inches of snow in some areas in Massachusetts and sleet and freezing rain across Rhode Island. Some communities declared snow emergencies to help cleanup crews plow streets.
The bitter cold that was stalking the upper Plains was expected to bring bone-chilling misery to the East by week's end.
Residents in the Atlanta area could see temperatures in the high teens later in the week, forecasters said. And in Maine, where overnight lows early Monday dipped to as much as 22 below, even colder weather was in the offing by Thursday.
The weekend snowfall caused two large chain-reaction collisions a 59-vehicle crash in New Hampshire and another in Connecticut that involved 13 vehicles. No life-threatening injuries were reported in either crash.
Elsewhere:
The Pacific Northwest remained on alert with three flooded rivers in Washington, where state officials were assessing the damage from heavy rain and melting snow on roads and property.
In Indiana, two men died Sunday after their snowmobiles fell through the ice covering a lake in Noble County. A third man boating on a different lake died. His body was found partially submerged.
Saturday's snow was a boon to Ohio ski resorts, which called it a stimulus package for their industry.
"We've been in business for 47 years and this is what I can't believe yesterday was by far the best gross sales day we've ever had," said George Shaffer, area manager of the Alpine Valley ski resort east of Cleveland in Geauga County, where 11 inches fell.
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