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(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The snow map has been turned upside down in the Midwest United States this winter, with most of Minnesota in a snow drought while areas from Wichita, Kansas, to Sioux ...
Minnesota farmers have been slapped in the face by Mother Nature this year. A major drought has dried up hay crops, leaving many farmers and cattle ranchers in the dust and prompting a ...
Aug. 3—Even with a strong chance of showers this week, the drought outlook for the area has only gotten worse. According to the US Drought Monitor, the area of extreme drought that has been ...
A drought developed in the Western, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States in the summer of 2020. [3] Similar conditions started in other states in August 2020, including Iowa, Nebraska and certain parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The drought of 1988 ranked as the worst drought since the Dust Bowl, which had occurred more than 50 years earlier. Damages in the United States (as of 2008, adjusted for inflation) were calculated at between $80 billion and almost $120 billion. The state of Minnesota alone saw $1.2 billion in crop losses.
The fire was believed to have been worsened by the 2020-21 North American drought. [9] [11] On August 18, 2021, the Department of Natural Resources announced that three watersheds of northern Minnesota had experienced "exceptional drought intensity." That classification had not been used since the scale was created in 2000.
Drought conditions in Minnesota are getting worse and spreading. For the first time this season, Anoka County in the north metro and areas near St. Cloud and Rochester have reached extreme drought ...
Drought conditions have gripped nearly the entire country, with only one state spared as a bone-dry autumn left most states parched. In November, Kentucky became the 49th state to cross into ...