• Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam faces imminent failure after flooding breach

    ByTeo Blašković

    On Monday morning, June 24, 2024, flooding on the Blue Earth River breached the Rapidan Dam, prompting officials to declare an “imminent failure condition.” This followed debris accumulation identified on June 23, 2024, which led to emergency measures in North Mankato, including road closures and levee construction, with potential downstream impacts predicted to raise river levels by 15 to 60 cm (6 inches to 2 feet) toward Mankato.

  • Bright fireball streaks across the sky over Minnesota

    ByTeo Blašković

    A bright fireball streaked across the sky over Minnesota at around 08:03 UTC on May 9, 2021. The event lasted several seconds before the object fragmented and disintegrated. The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 39 reports by early Monday morning, from users in…

  • Severe hailstorm causes extensive crop damage in Minnesota, U.S.

    ByJulie Celestial

    Farmers and agriculture experts are now counting the financial impacts incurred by a severe storm in Minnesota on July 11, 2020. Winds of up to 80 km/h (50 mph) and hail as big as 63.5 mm (2.5 inches) battered thousands of hectares of land in counties from Kandiyohi…

  • 117-year-old May snowfall record broken in Minnesota

    ByTW

    Several snowfall records have been broken in Duluth area, Minnesota this week as severe storms continue dropping very heavy on the already saturated ground across the southcentral United States. Duluth area has already broken several snowfall records, NWS office in…