Drought — Pine, Minnesota

2023-10-01 to 2023-10-10 · Pine, Minnesota

Event narrative

October began with D2 Severe Drought conditions across northern Pine County with D1 Moderate Drought across southern Pine County. With the update on the 3rd, most of northern Pine County was removed from D2 Severe Drought before all of county was removed from D2 Severe Drought with the update on the 10th, leaving conditions ranging from D0 Abnormally Dry to D1 Moderate Drought. No additional changes of D2 Severe Drought or worse were then seen over the remainder of the month with rainfall within an inch of normal.

Wider weather episode

Drought conditions persisted across northeastern Minnesota during the month of October, but significant improvement was seen. All areas of D3 Extreme Drought were removed during the first week of the month with significant reductions in areas of D2 Severe Drought by the end of the month as well. Rainfall was near to slightly below normal for the month, but was enough along with lingering wet conditions from September to lead to the improvement in October.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1143444. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.