Million dollar rain? It was a good soaking for central Minnesota farms last night.
Many locations in central Minnesota picked up more than an inch of rain.
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Good timing.
A line of slow-moving thunderstorms dumped some significant rainfall across several central Minnesota counties last night.
The soaking came at a good time and in a good spot. Much of central Minnesota has endured rainfall defects between 2 and 5 inches over the past two months.
Stressed crops got a good deep drink in many locations in the pie slice from the western Twin Cities west along Highway 212 and northwest along I-94. (rainfall map above)
Here are some selected rainfall totals from Tuesday. You can find a wider list of daily rainfall totals near your location here.
New London 2.62”
Annandale 2.20”
Long Prairie 2.13”
Spicer 2.05”
Bird Island 2.03”
Glencoe 1.72”
St. Cloud 1.69”
Hutchinson 1.43”
Carver 1.35”
Rainfall totals Tuesday.CoCoRaHS
The rainfall comes in a part of Minnesota that is abnormally dry or in growing drought overall. Thursday’s drought monitor report will likely expand areas of drought in Minnesota.
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