According to today's Drought Monitor report of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), most of the Midwest Climate Region remained free of dryness and drought, and long-term dryness finally came to an end in east-central Michigan.
There were also areas of limited improvement to dryness and drought in parts of Minnesota due to moderate precipitation and/or melting snow.
Farther south, dryness and drought were essentially unchanged across Iowa, and abnormal dryness expanded in a swath across central and west-central Missouri, where 60-day precipitation totals were 1.5 to 3.0 inches below normal.