Heavy weekend rainfall could ease drought in parts of Minnesota
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Parts of western and southern Minnesota got soaked last weekend.
A slow-moving low-pressure system brought a few rounds of showers and thunderstorms as expected last weekend. The heaviest rains fell across southwest and western Minnesota. Rainfall was more spotty in the Twin Cities area, but multi-inch rainfall was recorded west of the Twin Cities.
You can see on the map at the top of this post that a good swath of southwest Minnesota picked up between 1 and 3 inches of rainfall last weekend.
But the map above may not include all rainfall reports. Sunday’s rainfall totals from CoCoRaHS observers show more than 3 inches of rainfall (3.2”) near Fairmont in southwest Minnesota. And many locations report more than 2 inches as close to the Twin Cities as Mankato.
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Here is a list of 24-hour rainfall totals reported by observers through early Monday morning.
Parts of western Minnesota also picked up multi-inch rainfall last weekend. Moorhead picked up more than 3 inches of rain.
The Twin Cities area missed out again on the heaviest rainfall totals. But a few communities managed to squeeze out an inch of rainfall last weekend. Here are some select rainfall totals from around the greater Twin Cities area.
Excelsior 1.43”
Shoreview .50”
Plymouth .49”
Richfield .48”
Minneapolis .46”
Woodbury .42”
So most of the Twin Cities missed out on significant soaking rainfall again last weekend. But the 2 to more than 3 inches of rainfall across parts of southwest and western Minnesota could be enough in some areas to ease drought by around one category when this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor is released Thursday.
Stay tuned.
