Halloween got off to a rainy, slushy or snowy start this year, depending on where you were in southwest Minnesota.

Some communities received an inch or more of snow on Thursday morning, the National Weather Service reported.

In southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa, snowfall tended to be more focused on areas of higher ground, said meteorologist Jeff Chapman at the National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls.

Thursday morning snowfall reports varied. Weather stations south of Balaton and Garvin reported snowfall of one to two inches, while Windom had 2.4 inches.

That wasn’t a final measure of the snow that fell in southwest Minnesota on Thursday, Chapman said. Precipitation later in the day Thursday would be part of the following day’s reports.

Marshall received rain and some snowflakes Thursday, but they didn’t accumulate. The observed precipitation in Lyon County on Thursday morning ranged from one-quarter to one-half of an inch, the NWS said.

Part of Minnesota, in an area stretching from Renville County northeast to the Duluth area and Wisconsin, was under a winter weather advisory on Thursday. The Twin Cities NWS office said areas around the Twin Cities were forecast to get anywhere from one to four inches of snow.

Southwest Minnesota may have missed out on the heavier snowfall amounts because the storm was still developing as it passed through the region, Chapman said.

Marshall has had Halloween snowfall in the past. The area got trace amounts of snow in 2017, and the last measurable Halloween snowfall was in 1995, Chapman said. That year, Marshall got six inches of snow.

The forecast this weekend is a little warmer than Thursday, but still rainy. In Marshall, showers are likely Saturday night through Monday, with high temperatures in the 50s, the NWS said.