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Graphic designer Emily Brewer shovels out her driveway in order to drive to work in Sioux City, Iowa, early on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The snow map has been turned upside ...
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 ...
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 ...
The drought conditions in Minnesota during 2021 caused serious comparisons to extremely similar dry conditions eighty-five years prior. [ 31 ] Drought significantly expanded in Minnesota in September 2022, which became the driest on record at the Twin Cities .
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 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 ...
The average monthly temperature of Minneapolis varies from 13 °F or −11 °C in January to 73 °F or 23 °C in July.. Because of its location in North America, Minnesota experiences temperature extremes characteristic of a continental climate, with cold winters and mild to hot summers in the south and frigid winters and generally cool summers in the north. [2]