Feb 29, 2012; 4:37 PM ET
The storm responsible for up to a foot of snow in South Dakota and northern Michigan and over a foot and a half of snow in portions of Minnesota and northern Wisconsin is slowly unwinding tonight.
Travel will remain difficult from the central and eastern Dakotas to the upper Great Lakes area.
While the strongest winds will ease tonight, blowing and drifting of snow on the ground will continue in the Dakotas to portions of northern and central Minnesota.
In areas farther to the east, where the snow was more wet during the day, falling temperatures will cause areas of water and slush to freeze tonight.
High winds and blowing snow forced officials to close a portion of I-90 in South Dakota Wednesday.
There have been sporadic power outages in the Upper Midwest. Wind gusts over 40 mph were common from eastern South Dakota to Minnesota in the snow. Gusts topped 55 mph in Duluth, Minn., as the snow came down.
Conditions will improve over the region Thursday as temperatures moderate with much less wind.
While another storm will affect part of the region on Friday, it will not be as intense in terms of wind and aerial coverage of snow.
Some snowfall totals from the storm:
- Butternut, Wis. : 19.0 inches
- Sawyer, Minn.: 17.0 inches
- Bessemer, Mich.: 13.5 inches
- Wessington Springs, S.D.: 11.5 inches
- St. Cloud, Minn.: 9.5 inches
- Durbin, N.D.: 8.4 inches
- Aberdeen, S.D.: 6.4 inches
- Fargo, N.D.: 3.4 inches
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