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Bring on the next drought monitor update. 

 across a wide area of central Minnesota including parts of the Twin Cities area Sunday night into Monday. 

Areas just west of the greater Twin Cities area picked up 2 to more than 4 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours. And one observer near Annadale, Minn., is reporting an astounding 6.75” of rainfall. That’s about a month and a half’s worth of rain in under 24 hours. 

You can see on the map above the zone across Wright, Stearns, Meeker and Kandyohi counties where the heaviest rainfall came down. 

Here’s a listing of the top rainfall totals recorded. Many of these observations run through 7 a.m. Monday. 

Much of the Twin Cities received between 1 and 2 inches of rainfall with this productive system. 

Here are some select rainfall totals from around the greater Twin Cities area. 

This latest rainfall arrived in time before the Tuesday morning cutoff and will be factored into Thursday’s U.S. Drought Monitor update.

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