Drought creeps back
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U.S. Drought Monitor shows the Twin Cities and southeast Minnesota creeping back into moderate drought status.
Only in Minnesota.
As the Red River floods in Morehead, the Twin Cities slides into drought.
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Things are looking a little scary on the fire danger and drought maps these days. The weather maps look pretty parched too.
After a long winter pining for some warm dry weather, we may be begging for rain around these parts in the next couple of weeks.
The lawn at the Huttner Weather Lab is powder dry.
How dry is the air these days? The dew point in the Twin Cities is 17 degrees. The dew point in Phoenix, Arizona? 37. The air is drier in Minnesota today than in the Arizona desert.
We'll enjoy a nice sunny week with temperatures warming through the 60's. A hopeful rain system may get cut off to our south Friday and Saturday. If we miss rain this weekend, the weather maps look dry through next week. We may even see our first 70 next week in the Twin Cities.
Enjoy the nice spring weather, and pray for a little rain this weekend.
PH