Most residents of our region won’t be surprised to hear that official statistics show that the month of July was above normal for both temperature and precipitation, and both conditions are likely to continue into August.
Pete Boulay with the State Climatology Office says one benefit is that the drought conditions of the past few years are almost completely history…
“The drought is on life support in the state right now. There’s not much left at all. A tiny a little bit way up north, little bit of moderate drought hanging on. But other than that the rest of the state has adequate moisture, and looking at Ag Statistics Bulletin for this week a quarter of the state has too much moisture right now on the ground.”
Boulay says unfortunately, we also had plenty of severe weather in July…
“Everybody’s getting something. And quite a bit of tree damage over the last two storms in central and southern Minnesota. Two days in a row we had repeat events and some high winds.”
Boulay says early previews of weather patterns for August show that active weather could continue, at least for the first portion of the month.
