The landscape is looking greener after the recent rainfall.

Dry conditions have been a concern in the Foothills lately with the Town of Okotoks issuing a fire advisory last week and local fire departments battling blazes.

Kirk Torneby, Meteorologist with Environment Canada, says the total amount of rainfall may not be as much as people were hoping for.

"Looking at the general pattern over the weekend we had a little bit of an unstable trough moving through and there's still some lingering precipitation over Eastern Alberta but for the Foothills region it looks like five to 10 millimetres is how much was experienced and little further north along the 593 upwards of 10 millimetres was reported."

Torneby says it's a tough call when trying to come up with an outlook for moisture in May.

"We're on the tail end of one of the biggest El Niño's on record, it's been warm and dry, so the outlook is showing that we'll still be a few degrees above normal for temperature but precipitation is a little hard to say as it's showing some early indications that there's a chance we might get above normal precipitation but the confidence of that is quite low at this time."

According to Agriclimate and Agrifood Canada, Southern Alberta has only seen about 40% of the normal amount of rainfall for the year.

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