Save my Lawn, It's Brown!

Save my Lawn, It's Brown!

We are in the middle of a very dry month and several cities in the metro area have begun to enforced water restrictions (in the land of 10,000 Lakes). If you're like me and don't have a sprinkler system your lawn has probably turned a nice shade of brown. grrrrr.....

So needless to say I have spent the better part of the last two morning watering my lawn, walking outside every 30min to adjust were the sprinkler is spraying.

As you can see below it doesn't look like rain any time soon. So it looks like the water bill will continue to rise. :(


Severe drought
Chris Shaffer, WCCO Meteorologist

It is still very early in June and we are talking about drought conditions. The western Twin Cities are suffering through a moderate drought while the conditions are severe from the eastern metro into western Wisconsin.

We have only been misted by .03" of rain over the past 12 days with only .20" falling over the past 27 days. We will not feel any relief Friday as we warm to 74 degrees and watch the clouds increase throughout the day. You will notice the wind picking up from the northwest 10-15 mph.
The rain arrives Saturday and the cool air settles in for the weekend. Our highs will only be in the low 60s both days. We will have showers Saturday with a few more scattered showers on Sunday. The best chance of rain arrives late Sunday into Monday. We could tap a fair amount of rainfall and the good news is we don't expect any severe weather.

Just a cool, wet weekend that should do wonders for our yards, flowers, crops, etc. It's bad timing for graduation parties and weddings, but just what our parched soil needs. We do stay cool into next week with more rain expected by next Thursday or Friday.