Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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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.

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.

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.

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Paul Huttner

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Parts of Minnesota have seen abundant rainfall this summer. But there are still areas of drought in Minnesota.

Trending toward drought in southeast Minnesota

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