April 2015

摘要

Soaking April rainfall encompassed areas from the western and central Gulf Coast into the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Monthly precipitation totals more than twice normal were common in the wettest locations. In stark contrast, very dry weather persisted across the upper Midwest. The April dryness also extended westward across the northern Plains and encompassed much of the West. In the latter region, a mostly dry April locked in a fourth consecutive year of drought in drought-ravaged California and the Great Basin.