A blizzard of exceptional magnitude was howling across the upper Midwest, catching everyone unprepared. More than 150 people lost their lives in the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940, 49 from Minnesota.

“Following a long, hard winter that had begun with an Armistice Day blizzard, many had cabin fever and took advantage of the sunshiny day to be out and about. Little did anyone know that the ...

The second week of November has a long history of powerful storms in the nation’s midsection, including the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald storm and the 1940 Armistice Day blizzard. But on Nov.