MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota began 2023 with about half the state still in drought. It was particularly bad in the south, with a severe stretch that began almost two years ago reaching from Minneapolis to close to the South Dakota border.
But with every shovelful of snow, the dry spell has been easing up across the state. Minnesota is off to one of the snowiest, wettest starts to a year in more than a century.
The drought has been improving all winter, said Caleb Grunzke, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
