Comment by NDlurker

1 day ago

We didn't get much snow in ND over the winter. Hasn't rained much this year either

If you can find climate data... for example, in Wisconsin 2012 our snowfall looked like https://www.aos.wisc.edu/oldsco/clim-history/stations/msn/ms... and the overall water year precipitation chart was https://www.aos.wisc.edu/oldsco/clim-history/stations/msn/ms...

PBS program on the 2012 drought - https://www.pbs.org/video/wpt-presents-wisconsin-drought-201...

And what the fields looked like ... http://www.wcwcw.com/feature96.html (also has a national map, and all of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois were in bad shape - Wisconsin looked pretty good by comparison in that map).

If you've got similar data for ND... (digging) https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/sites/default/files/2026-05... page 2 has the precipitation chart. North west ND looks bad.

  • My parents live on the west side of the state and my mom sent me a picture yesterday that looked a sandstorm