Multiple Northern Minnesota Cities See Record Rainfall – How Much Rain Did We Get So Far?

Our midweek rain event moving through Minnesota brought with it a drenching rain as things got underway Tuesday across the region.

Prior to rain getting underway, the National Weather Service office in Duluth had issued a forecast for widespread rain that could exceed an inch by the end of Wednesday. The North Shore, extending from the Duluth area all the way up to Grand Portage showed a forecast that could include up to 2-3 inches of rain between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Early Tuesday evening, the National Weather Service shared some news that several Northern Minnesota communities had actually received a record amount of rainfall throughout the day.

The record stands as the greatest amount of rain ever recorded on this date in the Northland's recorded weather history. Many of those records that were broken on Tuesday had stood for between 40 and 50 years!

New rain records set across the Northland

Here are the towns that saw daily rainfall records broken for November 19, how much rain fell today (as of the NWS update at 6 pm), and how it compares to the previous record:

How much rain have we gotten so far across Northern Minnesota?

While there is more rain (and light snow) on the way, here is a snapshot of the latest rain totals from this week's rain event so far through Tuesday evening, including some updated rain totals as of 9 pm for some of the towns that saw records broken today:

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3.2 inches - Beaver Bay, MN

3.09 inches - Grand Portage

3.05 inches - Grand Marais, MN

2.89 inches - Lutsen, MN

2.31 inches - Hovland, MN

2.22 inches - Duluth Heights

2.19 inches - Schroeder, MN

2.09 inches - Palmers, MN

1.78 inches - Duluth Airport

1.55 inches - Duluth (Lakeside neighborhood)

1.41 inches - Hill City, MN

1.26 inches - Esko, MN

0.94 inches - Poplar, WI