Fingerlakes1.com Menu The Climate Prediction Center calls it ‘abnormally dry’. If you look at the Drought Monitor map of New York a section of yellow or D0 cuts through the heart of the Finger Lakes. The dry weather has been the norm since last summer, but now spring is here. For Chris Lajewski and the rest of the team at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex that typically means over-saturation. It definitely isn’t the case this year. Lajewski, who serves as center director for the Montezuma Audubon Center- a connected property within the wetlands complex- there’s a portion along State Rt. 31 that includes several farm fields. He says that under normal circumstances those fields are soaked, and flooded during the month of March and April.