A merry, extra-white Christmas in South Dakota
From the Sioux Falls office of the National Weather Service:
Christmas Day 2009 will go down as the snowiest Christmas on record in many places. Below is a table of snowfall through 9:30 p.m. Christmas, previous record snowfall for the date, and the three-day storm total from December 23rd through December 25th.
| SITE | SNOWFALL | PREVIOUS RECORD | 3 DAY TOTAL |
| SIOUX FALLS | 9.9 INCHES | 10.0 INCHES IN 1945 | 15.7 INCHES |
| SIOUX CITY | 8.0 INCHES | 6.0 INCHES IN 1996 | 17.2 INCHES |
| HURON | 9.5 INCHES | 3.5 INCHES IN 1978 | 14.8 INCHES |
| MITCHELL | 7.0 INCHES | 5.7 INCHES IN 1964 | 16.2 INCHES |
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