Trending toward drought in southeast Minnesota
Much of Minnesota has received little or no rain in the past two weeks.
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It’s been a patchwork rainfall summer across Minnesota.
Parts of Minnesota have seen abundant to surplus rainfall this summer. Corps are well-watered in large sections of Minnesota this summer.
The latest 30-day precipitation analysis shows 5 to more than 7 inches of rain across north-central Minnesota in the past 30 days. It also shows less than 2 inches across southeast Minnesota.
Trending dry
Our weather pattern for the last two weeks has been pleasant but dry. Most of Minnesota has recorded little or no rainfall in the past week.
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Moderate drought conditions persist in west-central Minnesota and in the northeast.
And southeast Minnesota is now trending toward drought. Note the yellow area in southeast Minnesota. This “abnormally dry” zone was added to this week’s latest U.S. Drought Monitor for Minnesota.
This weekend’s thunderstorms and significant rainfall zones appear to favor central and northern Minnesota.