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City of Duluth provides updates on snow storm

Monday, March 25, 2024 | 3:45 PM

[DULUTH, MN] Snow continues to fall across the city, albeit at a lighter pace than earlier this morning. The current forecast package by the National Weather Service in Duluth has the storm ending sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening. Additional snow accumulations should be on the lighter side. City of Duluth snow operations crews have completed two full passes of our Priority 1 street network since yesterday morning, and, per the snow and ice control policy, they continue to work to ensure those streets are clear of snow while also moving into the Priority 2 residential streets as they are able. As of this afternoon, approximately half of the Priority 2 residential streets network has been plowed and treated. With snow compacting on our roadways, our plow operations must be completed by our fleet of motor graders, and they’ll continue the work until the snowfall ends and final plowing passes can be achieved. For more information on our snow and ice policy, please visit https://duluthmn.gov/snow/. Our thanks to our street maintenance staff for their hard work through this and all snow events. Vehicle travel is not advised during this storm—if you do not have to be on the roads, please do not travel.

If you have not yet moved your vehicle to the even side of the road from the Sunday changeover, it is imperative you do so now.  Our crews are encountering a decent number of illegally parked cars as of this morning. Illegally parked cars on our narrow residential roads will slow our progress into those Priority 2 and 3 streets. For more information on alternate side parking, please visit https://duluthmn.gov/media/c3qfqwg4/parking-calendar.pdf. Our parking services staff are actively enforcing alternate side parking rules. Illegally parked vehicles run the risk of being ticketed and/or towed at the vehicle owner’s expense.

The City would also like to remind residents and businesses to lend a helping hand to their neighbors in need as they remove snow from their sidewalks. Safe sidewalk access is crucial to pedestrians, folks pushing strollers, and people using wheelchairs and mobility devices as they move about to errands, appointments, and the like. Removal of sidewalk snow within 24 hours of a snow event’s end helps our residents maintain safe mobility. For snow shoveling info, please visit https://duluthmn.gov/snow/snow-shoveling/information/.

As always, the City thanks residents for their patience and understanding as crews work to maintain roads during and after snow events. Please stay safe while traveling.

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