Weather officials say three separate snow events in less than a week should help soil moisture for fields and lawns, along with replenishing lake levels after what had been a very dry winter season…“You know we would have like it a earlier but it’s a great time to get precipitation before the sun is really strong. This will help alleviate some if not many of the short-term deficits in precipitation that we’ve accumulated over the last three or four months.”
State Climatologist Kenny Blumenfeld says while the main ground moisture will come from Sunday’s heavy, wet snow, the two to three inches of added snow on Tuesday is a bonus, and could go a long way to at least starting the spring-summer season outside the drought parameters…“This is a exciting precipitation event for sure because it gives people the precipitation that they have been missing, wanting. Again, it’s not get us all the way out of all the problems that we have hydrologically, but this is a help.”
Wright County was among many Minnesota counties that spent much of the later part of the summer of 2023 in drought conditions for the second straight year.
(content: courtesy MNN)
