Weather chats with Mark Seeley

Astronomical summer has officially begun — and while June has been warmer than average so far, it's also been rainy, with heavy storms and flooding recorded across swaths of the state this week.
Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer checked in with Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota professor emeritus, about the weekend forecast and other weather topics — including the state's record downpours.
The results are in: May 2018 clocked in as the third-warmest in Minnesota history. It was a climatological pendulum swing that came on the heels of the state's second-coldest April.
More than 50 percent of the state's landscape is abnormally dry, while portions of Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau and Koochiching counties are in moderate drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
More than half of the state's 7 million acres of corn is in the ground now. Some farmers are waiting for rain, but not in the southeastern part of the state where planters have had an abundance of precipitation.