Time To Dig Out: Impressive North Dakota Snowfall Totals

The city of Bismarck just put itself in the record book for daily snowfall.

Not a record you want to break.  Especially in October.  8.5 inches of snow fell in the city of Bismarck smashing the old record of 3.0 inches for the date of October 26th.

That total no doubt would've been much higher total except it took a while for the warm ground to allow snow to accumulate.

Now, the question on everyone's mind is the snow here to stay in Bismarck Mandan?

Looking at the long-range forecast from Accuweather, the snow isn't going anywhere in the next couple of weeks.

However, in exactly two weeks, starting on November 11th, we have a lot of 40-plus-degree temperatures coming our way for the rest of the month.  So, I have to believe, barring any more big snow events, we should melt these 8 inches of snow at some point.  We could even have a brown Thanksgiving.

Here are your snowfall totals across North Dakota for October 26th, 2023.

Bismarck 8.5 inches of snow.

Mandan 4.5 inches of snow.

Cannonball 3.0 inches of snow.

Glen Ullin 7.8 inches of snow.

Hebron 8 inches of snow.

Hazen 13.4 inches of snow.

Killdeer 6.0 inches of snow.

Manning 8.0 inches of snow.

New England 13.0 inches of snow.

Dickinson 10.0 inches of snow.

Washburn 14.0 inches of snow.  (High total for the state)

Velva 8.4 inches of snow.

Minot 12.0 inches of snow.

Surrey 13.0 inches of snow.

Harvey 10.5 inches of snow.

Devils Lake 6.0 inches of snow.

Jamestown 3.0 inches of snow.

Grand Forks 4.8 inches of snow.

Fargo 1/2 inch of snow.

Ellendale 3.5 inches of snow.

Williston 9.5 inches of snow.