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Sep. 21—MANKATO — Minnesota's drought just keeps getting worse, including in the local area. There is a good chance for rain this weekend, with the Mankato area at about a 70% chance for ...
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 state’s 2018 hazard mitigation plan lists a litany of both short-term and long-term impacts on agriculture. “Drought can increase unemployment, increase farm credit risk, capital ...
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.
July is the hottest month in Minnesota statewide and is usually the month when the peak heat waves occur. In July 1936, Minnesota and the rest of the Midwest suffered through its most severe heat wave on record. Most of the state was engulfed in 100 °F (37.8 °C) temperatures for several days in a row, and Minnesota's all-time record high ...
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In 1911 the Minnesota Division of Forestry was established to conserve the state's forests by promoting fire prevention and protection. [4] Minnesota's state bird the common loon. The first agency created to protect the state's resources was founded in 1931 by the Minnesota Legislature as the Minnesota Department of Conservation. [5] [6]