Minnesota digs out from storm

Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS

A major snowstorm dealt another winter wallop to Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Ohio on Monday as it moved east out of Minnesota leaving more than a foot of fresh snow in its wake.

Operations were returning to normal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after the storm prompted Delta Airlines to cancel hundreds of flights Sunday, although hourlong delays were reported.

Airport spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said about 60 departures and 100 arrivals were canceled early Monday, but she said she didn’t expect more because the weather was clearing.

The National Weather Service reported the storm dropped 12.3 inches of snow at the airport by Monday morning, and an additional 1 to 3 inches was expected by the end of the day.

The southern Minneapolis suburbs had even more snow, with Eden Prairie hitting 17 inches and Bloomington a close second at 16 inches, but the highest state total was 19 inches in Madison in far western Minnesota.

The snow fell from a storm that on Sunday spanned most of the upper Midwest and dropped more than 10 inches on towns in the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

On Monday, the weather service said snow continued to fall across the upper Midwest and the northern part of the Ohio Valley. Forecasters declared winter-storm warnings throughout those areas, and warned that up to 1/2-inch could accumulate in southwestern Michigan.