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Report: Drought Worsened Across Much of Minnesota Get our free mobile app UNDATED (KROC-AM News) - Over 90 percent of Minnesota is experiencing at least moderate drought conditions and close to 40 percent is now in severe drought. The updated U.S. Drought Monitor Report issued today by the National Weather Service, which does not factor in the rain that fell across the state on Tuesday, shows the ongoing drought expanded significantly since the previous update a week ago to cover almost 93 percent of Minnesota. It reported last week that only about 11 percent of Minnesota was experiencing sev...

Report: Drought Worsened Across Much of Minnesota Get our free mobile app UNDATED (KROC-AM News) - Over 90 percent of Minnesota is experiencing at least moderate drought conditions and close to 40 percent is now in severe drought. The updated U.S. Drought Monitor Report issued today by the National Weather Service, which does not factor in the rain that fell across the state on Tuesday, shows the ongoing drought expanded significantly since the previous update a week ago to cover almost 93 percent of Minnesota. It reported last week that only about 11 percent of Minnesota was experiencing sev...

A long stretch of dry weather is starting to have an impact locally. According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor Report, Marion County is once again rated as abnormally dry and the northern third of Warren County is now in moderate drought. All of south central Iowa, mainly south of Highway 92, is also abnormally dry, and drought has expanded to all of Polk and most of Jasper Counties. No rainfall has been recorded locally in June thus far, and a stretch of well-above average temperatures that has settled into the region since the beginning of the month is expected to continue for the next f...

Dry Conditions Rapidly Spreading Cross Region

The Santa Clara Valley Water District has placed several limitations on water usage, including a cap on the use of drinking water for watering ornamental landscapes and lawns.