Drought conditions expand across Minnesota, with more heat on the way

For the first time this season, Anoka County in the north metro and areas near St. Cloud and Rochester have reached extreme drought conditions while a large swath of east-central Minnesota, including most of the metro area, has reached severe drought levels, according to the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The report released every Thursday shows where drought is happening in the United States and how bad it is.

This week's report included precipitation that fell through 7 a.m. Tuesday and did not include Wednesday's storms that brought more than an inch of rain to some places and barely a trace to others.

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