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Current Rainfall Situation
As we discussed earlier this week, the majority of our area is still in either moderate or severe drought categories of the National Drought Monitor thanks to a long stretch of abnormally drier than...
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Stormy/Wet Start To May
Over the last week, pretty much every day someone was seeing some type of severe weather. With that severe weather came a lot of beneficial rain. Every day so far (Through the first 6 days) we have...
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Improvement in the Local Drought Situation
Our weather certainly has gotten much more pleasant in the past couple of days and from the looks of the current seven day forecast, we’re going to be doing pretty well for the next week or so for the...
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Where Are You Rain?
When it rains, it pours. That has been the case this spring and summer for sure. It hasn’t rained for very many days but when it did we were able to pick up a good amount of liquid. Over the past...
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A Little Rain is on the way, but the Drought Looks to Continue
We’re enjoying a bright, fairly dry Thursday with some seasonably warm weather across the area while hopes for some rain persist. A weak storm system in the Dakotas is edging its way eastward,...
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This Week’s Drought Update
The latest Drought Monitor update from the USDA shows little change in our area over the past week. Most of our southern Minnesota and Wisconsin counties are rather dry and are listed as “abnormally...
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We Still Could Use Some More Rain
Even after a stormy Monday night and Tuesday morning in much of the local area, we still find ourselves in a pretty sizable rainfall deficit for the month and season across the region. While Rochester...
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The Latest on the Drought Situation
The latest drought monitor has been released and although we’ve received some nice, soaking showers in the past couple of days, very little has changed in the local drought headlines. Much of north...
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Rainfall Deficit
A cold front has swept through the Upper Mississippi Valley today, ushering in some cool, Canadian air and producing some light rain showers and gusty winds for us. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen so...
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A Snowy February
It has been a long time since we have talked about something being above average other than the temperature. The February of 2013 is changing that though. Through February so far we have had 15″ of...
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Abnormally Dry Conditions
It seems absurd and kind of boggles the mind, but who would have thought a couple of months ago given the insanely wet winter and spring this year that we’d find ourselves officially listed on the U.S....
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A Worsening Drought Across The Region
Our dry weather pattern continues as bright sunshine continues to dominate our sky rather than rain clouds this week. This morning’s light rain did very little to improve our drought situation as...
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Drought Conditions Continue, But Some Rain Chances May Be Ahead
We’ve been enjoying some gorgeous, tranquil fall weather over the past few days and, from the looks of things, this dry pattern will continue through the next few days. Unfortunately, while we...
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The first week of August may feature a little more rain for us
While generally unseasonably cool temperatures for the month of July in 2014 made headlines, it was the rainfall that was a bit more off the mark statistically. We were more than four degrees cooler...
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