Drought — Southern Cass, Minnesota

2023-09-01 to 2023-09-30 · Southern Cass, Minnesota

Event narrative

The southern portion of Cass County was mainly covered by D3 Moderate Drought to begin the month. Rainfall for the month was around a inch below normal for areas near the Crow Wing River while it was around an inch over normal over much of the remainder of the southern part of the county. Rainfall during the middle of the month led to a reduction in the area of D3 Extreme Drought with the update on the 26th leaving all of the area in D2 Severe Drought. No additional changes were noted over the last few days of the month.

Wider weather episode

Drought conditions persisted across northeastern Minnesota to begin September with D3 Extreme Drought stretching from the Brainerd Lakes area into the I-35 corridor. Two heavy rainfall events impacted the region during the month leading to many areas receiving 200 to 300 percent of normal rainfall for the month, especially in areas seeing the worst of the drought conditions. This led to drought improvement across much of the region with D3 Extreme Drought becoming confined to northern Cass County by the end of the month as much of the North Shore and Arrowhead improved to D0 Abnormally Dry.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1141231. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.