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Ice Storm in Faribault, Minnesota

Ice Storm January 2, 2023 – January 3, 2023 · Faribault, Minnesota

What the National Weather Service wrote

Calls to dispatch centers revealed slippery roads and a few power outages.

The wider storm

A band of rain and freezing rain lifted up across southern Minnesota on the morning of January 03, 2023. There were several pictures of icing on social media. Call to dispatchers verified a few counties in the ice storm warning. Those that didn't have significant impacts were a couple degrees away from a disaster according to one Emergency Manager.

Below are a couple of the noteworthy reports:

Blue Earth County - a couple calls of powerlines iced and leaning. A CoCoRAHs observer measured 0.25 of ice on upwind side of rain gage, and another mentioned quarter inch of sleet/ice.

Faribault County - A few power outages and slippery roads.

Martin County - A few power outages, and at least 1/4 inch of ice on a fence.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1073574. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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