Fall colors explode, Black Hills blizzard claims 70,000 cattle?
This may be the best weekend for leaf peepers in much of Minnesota.
The Minnesota DNR reports fall colors are peaking now in northern Minnesota. The pace of color change is quickening in the metro and the rest of Minnesota. Here's the Thursday update from the Minnesota DNR.
Our late run of warm weather seems to have delayed 'peak color' in Minnesota by about a week this year. Here's a look at the typical fall color peak.
Seeley: Black Hills blizzard may have claimed 70,000 cattle
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We've reported on the ferocity of the record setting Black Hills 'Blizza-cane' this week. Now word from my MPR colleague Dr. Mark Seeley that as many as 70,000 cattle may have died in the storm. Here's a preview of this week's Weather Talk. Mark has more on Morning Edition in the 6am hour Friday.
Estimates on the consequences of last week's blizzard and heavy snowfall in WY and western SD suggest that upward of 70,000 cattle may have perished in the storm. Many areas received over 20 inches of snow, and several reported 30 or more inches. Records for the most snowfall so early in the month of October were shattered in both WY and SD.
The scenes of cattle losses around the Black Hills are stunning.
Linda Osburn sent me this photo of her husband Paul Hardenberg of Garrison, MN, who surveyed the scene Sunday.
It's another case of extreme weather for ranchers in the Black Hills.