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'The perfect rain' helping Manitoba pastures, but still not enough to end drought

'The perfect rain' helping Manitoba pastures, but still not enough to end drought

Tom Johnson didn't recognize his own land Saturday morning. "I thought I was in a different country because two days ago everything was brown," he said. The rancher near Oak Point, Man., woke up to green pastures, buds on his yard's trees and a bit of optimism. Parts of southern and central Manitoba saw between 40 and 110 millimetres of rain between Friday and Saturday — the first significant rainfall some areas have seen in months.