This weeks heavy snowfall sure wreaked havoc on the roads, but how did it affect drought conditions in the state?
To the south, there's still a deficiency says Joe Calderone, Meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
"A lot of it's still in either abnormally dry or moderate drought," he says.
While the Twin Cities metro area is pretty stable, conditions to the north are even worse.
"Once you go stay north of the metro, north of even say even the St. Cloud area, the drought's a little bit worse, there you're talking about the D2 category or severe drought," Calderone explains.
Much of the snow that fell in the south central and south eastern part of the state equates to half and inch or even one inch of liquid, which was beneficial.
"The fact that we were coming out of the ground-frost, kind of thawing out a little bit, which will allow some of that moisture to seep in," he said. :That should improve the drought conditions."
But Calderone says it's tough to speculate how much precipitation is needed to improve conditions in the other areas.
"Once you start expanding your way into west-central Minnesota, maybe upwards towards Hinckley and then down southeast towards Red Wing, then we get into the abnormally dry," explains Calderone. "Once you get into say, around the Mankato area, south to the Iowa border, and then from around the Brainerd area north, that's when we get into that that next category, the D1 moderate drought."
Calderone also mentioned they're keeping track of another significant system headed our way late next week but it's far too early to know how much or where that storm system could hit.
As for the snow that is left out there? It won't be around long. WCCO Chief Meteorologist Chris Saffer says temperatures will reach the upper-40s on Saturday and well into the 50s on Sunday and Monday.
