Heavy Snow in Grand Forks, North Dakota

Heavy Snow December 9, 2025 · Grand Forks, North Dakota

What the National Weather Service wrote

Measurement of 8.0 inches of snow at Niagara, ND representing the event total near the Grand Forks County and Nelson County line.

The wider storm

A clipper type system moved from the Pacific Northwest across the Northern Plains where it deepened and brought a period of light freezing rain less than one quarter of an inch followed by intense bands of heavy snow. The greatest impacts occurred where slick roads combined with heavy snow rates greater than 1 inch per hour causing near zero visibility across northeast North Dakota and parts of northwest and west central Minnesota. No travel advised was issued by the NDDOT with icy and snow covered roads reported by the MNDOT.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1306303. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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