Today
Has it rained enough in Minneapolis?
Rain soaked properly in 3 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Minneapolis has had 20.9mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 73.2mm, so that is about 29% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 17.2mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Minneapolis through a normal year
Across a normal year Minneapolis gets about 835.2mm of rain, most of it in June (112.9mm) and least in January (24.4mm).
A normal October in Minneapolis has rain on 12 days. Only 8 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Minneapolis one of the drier places this site covers in the United States in October — 21st of 30, against Seattle at the wet end (131.5mm) and Las Vegas at the dry end (8.4mm).
JanFMAMJunJASOND
Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorst hit, and first to suffer. Very little soil, fully exposed, and nothing to fall back on — in this weather they can empty in a day.
- Salad and leafy vegShallow-rooted and quick to bolt once they run dry. First priority of anything in the ground.
- Beds and bordersA long soak that reaches the roots is worth more than a daily sprinkle, which only wets the surface and is gone by lunchtime.
- Established shrubs and treesFine as they are. They draw from far deeper than a dry spell reaches.