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of the 24th. The freezing rain and sleet then changed over to snow during the morning hours of the 24th. Thunder snow also occurred at some locations across the area. Snowfall amounts of 6 to 15 inches had occurred as the storm ended. With the initial slippery roads from the freezing rain and then the heavy snow, travel conditions became very difficult. The South Dakota State Emergency Management, Highway Patrol, and Department of Transportation issued a travel advisory for no travel for Interstate-90 and many highways in central South Dakota. There were numerous accidents along the interstate. Some snowfall amounts included, 7 inches at Browns Valley, 9 inches at Bryant, Webster, Wheaton, Artichoke Lake, and Tintah, 10 inches at Toronto, Roy Lake, Garden City, and Ortonville, 11 inches at Faulkton, 12 inches at Watertown, and 15 inches at Clear Lake.

1917: Frigid air dove well south into Florida. Low temperatures included 15 at Tallahassee, 16 at Jacksonville, and 27 at Miami. The thermometer never made it out of the 40s in Miami.

1987: Five inches of snow fell in just one hour in Philadelphia, PA as a huge East Coast storm strengthened rapidly.

1991: A black rain fell on eastern Turkey, as soot from Kuwait oil field fires mixed with precipitation.

1998: Florida's deadliest tornado took place around midnight when 25 people were killed near Kissimmee. The twister was part of a larger outbreak across central Florida that resulted in 42 fatalities.