June 2010 will go down in the books as a wild severe weather month in Minnesota, but St. Cloud statistics were near normal. The 20 tornadoes reported throughout the state in the month of June steered clear of St. Cloud. According to St. Cloud State Meteorology Professor Bob Weisman, the total rainfall in St. Cloud last month was 4.92 inches, just barely above normal. Since the snow melted in mid-March, St. Cloud has picked up 8.43 inches of rain, almost two inches less than normal.

Weisman says the rain wasn’t always heavy over St. Cloud, but it was frequent. There were 16 days with measurable rainfall in June, four days short of the 20 day record set in 1914. But there still hasn’t been a day in 2010 with at least an inch of rain in St. Cloud.