diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9ed4eb5093..c00518a735 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ env:
         - PYTHON_VERSION=$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION
         - NUMPY_VERSION=stable
         - MAIN_CMD='python setup.py'
-        - CONDA_DEPENDENCIES='xarray dask distributed toolz Cython sphinx cartopy pillow matplotlib scipy pyyaml pyproj pyresample coveralls coverage codecov behave netcdf4 h5py h5netcdf gdal rasterio imageio pyhdf mock libtiff pycoast pydecorate geoviews zarr six'
+        - CONDA_DEPENDENCIES='xarray!=0.13.0 dask distributed toolz Cython sphinx cartopy pillow matplotlib scipy pyyaml pyproj pyresample coveralls coverage codecov behave netcdf4 h5py h5netcdf gdal rasterio imageio pyhdf mock libtiff pycoast pydecorate geoviews zarr six'
         - PIP_DEPENDENCIES='trollsift trollimage pyspectral pyorbital libtiff'
         - SETUP_XVFB=False
         - EVENT_TYPE='push pull_request'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c44ceac989..ae2dc0e8e5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     pass
 
 requires = ['numpy >=1.13', 'pillow', 'pyresample >=1.11.0', 'trollsift',
-            'trollimage >=1.5.1', 'pykdtree', 'six', 'pyyaml', 'xarray >=0.10.1',
+            'trollimage >=1.5.1', 'pykdtree', 'six', 'pyyaml', 'xarray >=0.10.1, !=0.13.0',
             'dask[array] >=0.17.1', 'pyproj', 'zarr']
 
 test_requires = ['behave', 'h5py', 'netCDF4', 'pyhdf', 'imageio', 'libtiff',