Widespread Showers Across the Eastern Half of the US; Severe Thunderstorms in Montana into the Plains

Widespread coverage of showers and thunderstorms across much of the central and eastern U.S., will produce areas of excessive rain in the northwest Gulf Coast, portions of the Mississippi Valley and the southern Mid-Atlantic states. Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected from Montana into portions of the central/southern Plains this weekend. Read More >

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Drought Monitor and Outlooks The Drought Monitor is released weekly on Thursday (using data as of the previous Tuesday) by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NOAA, and USDA. For more information, including a discussion of the drought and additional maps, please visit https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

MN Drought Monitor	WI Drought Monitor

Drought Monitor	Seasonal Outlook	Monthly Outlook	Rain Needed To End Drought

Drought Monitor Categories

Precipitation Trends The maps below are courtesy the Midwest Regional Climate Center.

7 Day % Normal	14 Day % Normal	30 Day % Normal	90 Day % Normal	Year To Date % Normal

Temperature Trends The maps below are courtesy the Midwest Regional Climate Center.

7 Depart. Normal	14 Depart. Normal	30 Depart. Normal	90 Depart. Normal	YTD Depart. Normal
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Drought Ingredients The maps below come from the Climate Prediction Center's website. Visit their website for explanations and additional graphics.

Crop Moisture	Palmer Index	NLADS 1M Moisture Percentile	CPC Soil Moisture

Short Term Drought Blend	Short Term Components	Long Term Drought Blend	Long Term Components

Vegdri and QuickDri

VegDri MN	VegDri WI

VegDri: Two variables related to general vegetation conditions – the Percent Average Seasonal Greenness (PASG) and Start of Season Anomaly (SOSA) – are calculated from satellite-based observations and incorporated into the VegDRI. Both variables are calculated from normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data acquired by NOAA’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). Climate-related variables incorporated into VegDRI include the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). Information about soils, land cover, land use, and the ecological setting are the types of biophysical data incorporated into VegDRI. This information is critical because the climate-vegetation response can vary depending on these different environmental characteristics. (More information and maps from the VegDri website.)

QuickDri MN	QuickDri WI

QuickDRI is a geospatial tool that characterizes the intensification of short-term drought condition patterns on a weekly basis across the continental United States (CONUS) at a 1-km gridded spatial resolution. The primary goal of QuickDRI is to serve as an "alarm" indicator of rapidly emerging events such as "flash drought" that manifest rapidly on the order of a few days to weeks, are often difficult to detect using traditional drought indicators, and can having devastating negative impacts on agriculture and natural resources.

Streamflow The maps below come from USGS WaterWatch.

14 Day Streamflow Ranking	14 Day Streamflow to Drought Rating

14 Day Streamflow Ranking	14 Day Streamflow to Drought Rating

Drought Information Statement Drought Information Statements are issued when D2/Severe Drought or worse is present. (Check date on statement below.) For other drought statements from other offices, visit drought.gov.

    
                        

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Drought Information Statement

National Weather Service Duluth MN

912 AM CDT Fri Apr 18 2025



For the latest Drought Information Statement from the National

Weather Service in Duluth MN, see:

www.weather.gov/media/dlh/DGT/DGT_DLH_04182025.pdf



For the latest accessible, text-only Drought Information

Statement from the National Weather Service in Duluth MN, see:

www.weather.gov/media/dlh/DGT/DGT_DLH_04182025.txt



National Weather Service Duluth MN Drought Information Statement

web page: www.weather.gov/dlh/DroughtInformationStatement



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Widespread Showers Across the Eastern Half of the US; Severe Thunderstorms in Montana into the Plains

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