The Minnesota drought
Posted at 10:30 AM on June 21, 2012
by Bob Collins
Filed under: Weather
I'll leave the particulars on this to Paul Huttner on his excellent Updraft blog, and provide only the top-line headline, but the top-line headline is pretty interesting in light of the news of the last 36 hours from Duluth.
There are mild drought conditions in sections of Minnesota:
The drought monitor report for the area was released this morning.
Roughly a third of the state is rated "abnormally dry," according to the Minnesota Climatology Working Group.
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