Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation and weather. This week features whiteout conditions in the Upper Midwest, dusty conditions in the northern Plains and a California brush fire fanned by high winds.
Whiteout
An Alberta Clipper system — a fast-moving winter storm that typically enters the north-central U.S. from Canada — hit the Upper Midwest on Thursday. It dumped 3 to 7 inches of snow in northern parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin and produced gusty winds.
Just a bit to the west, along the Interstate 29 corridor, much less snow piled up. But gusts reached 40 to 50 mph Thursday night from eastern North Dakota to western Minnesota, exceeding 50 mph Friday morning. Blowing snow led to periods of whiteout conditions and very low visibility.
Dusty plains
High winds kicked up quite a bit of dust and dirt Tuesday in the northern Plains. Gusts ranged from 45 to nearly 60 mph in eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and western Nebraska as a mostly dry storm front moved through the region.
This video was shot in Fedora, South Dakota, about 80 miles west of Sioux Falls, the nearest official weather observation station. The peak gust there Tuesday was 44 mph.
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