Drought

[maplelakeduckslayer]

Low from where though...we've been incredibly wet. Our pond is about where it was near 2010...higher than early 2000's. Honestly I'd love another year like 2021 to drop it a bit further.

We have good soil moisture now meaning a good frost seal...if we get decent snow runoff will fill everything right back up come spring. I'd love a low snow winter

[Bullet21XD]

How do the water levels come back?

Some of the stuff out by me is 2-3 feet low.

That’s a lot of snow to recover over winter. This might take a few years I’m guessing.

One or two good rains and it's back to normal. Ortonville had 7 inches the week before last.

[h2ofwlr]

In metro were still -6" for the year

[Quack]

How do the water levels come back?

Some of the stuff out by me is 2-3 feet low.

That’s a lot of snow to recover over winter. This might take a few years I’m guessing.

Drain tile and impervious surfaces. This state has plenty of both


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[Fish Felon]

How do the water levels come back?

Some of the stuff out by me is 2-3 feet low.

That’s a lot of snow to recover over winter. This might take a few years I’m guessing.

One or two good rains and it's back to normal. Ortonville had 7 inches the week before last.

What are you basing it being low off of?

2016, 2018, and 2019 were all the wettest years in recorded history for MN precipitation....each one surpassing the previous. 2017, the "dry year," was still 6" above the average annual precipitation. I have no idea what 2020 was in terms of precipitation....I'm guessing pretty average to maybe slightly below average.

Point being, everything in this state was high as hell. Going into this year.

Humans tend to have short term memories....

Realize that the half decade immediately leading into this dry year was almost certainly the wettest in history.

Consider if the suff that's 2-3' down is actually only 6" to a foot down in the big picture.

[Fish Felon]

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[Fish Felon]

I wish the drought monitor maps were combined with above average precipitation maps. The maps can be somewhat misleading in painting the picture that drought is a bigger concern than too much rain, which IMO is worse for just about any landscape. These maps go white and "zero out" and don't show what areas are fukced by having too much rain. I get that it's the drought map, but still....everything is hunkey-dorey or it's dry to cataclysmic drought....no mention of areas that have ten inches of above average precipitation that are more fukced in terms of farming, recreation, wildlife, etc., than areas that are abnormally dry to being in severe drought are.......

[Fish Felon]

Anyone want to do drought predictions?

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[Fish Felon]

Then again....it's been pretty dry out this past week.

[Fish Felon]

Almost everything is unchanged. I kept clicking on states and they were all the same thinking there was a site error.....until I got to WY and saw it had changed a single point from this week to last week, so it's accurate....shit just didn't change much, or at all.

MN takes a big drop next week. This weather fukcing blows. It reminds me of March.....just cold enough, just rainy enough, just shitty enough to make a guy not want to go outside.