This Day in Weather History: March 10th

Weather History - March 10th

Local and Regional Events:

March 10th, 2005:

From early morning to early evening, high winds of 35 to 45 mph with gusts of near 70 mph occurred across central and northeast South Dakota. The high winds overturned a semi-truck near Mound City, knocked a large branch down onto a pickup truck in Selby, blew a glass door of a store in Clark off, tore a sign down in Aberdeen, and ripped the roof off a mobile home in South Shore.

March 10-12th, 2009:

A low-pressure system tracked across the panhandle of Oklahoma into the Great Lakes region produced moderate to heavy snow across northeast South Dakota from the morning to the evening of the 10th. Strong north-to-northwest winds gusting to 45 mph resulted in blizzard conditions. Travel became difficult, if not impossible, across northeast South Dakota. Interstate 29 between Watertown and the North Dakota border was closed for several hours. Several minor accidents occurred, along with some injuries. Snowfall amounts included 3 inches near Milbank, 4 inches near Columbia, Summit, and Sisseton, 5 inches at Waubay and Wilmot, 6 inches 10 miles northeast of Sisseton, Britton, and Roy Lake, 7 inches in Webster and Westport.

Bitter cold air filtered behind the low-pressure system, bringing record cold to the area. On the 11th, Aberdeen and Sisseton broke their record low highs for the date, with afternoon highs only reaching zero. The record at Aberdeen had been in place since 1896. Sisseton also set a record low of 14 degrees below zero on March 12th.