Downpours challenged many of the nation's farmers this month, while cool, stormy weather often kept spring revelers indoors or well bundled. Cool conditions were especially prevalent in the north-central United States, although rainfall provided drought relief on the northern High Plains. Elsewhere across the nation's mid-section, wet weather on the east-central and southeastern Plains contrasted with chronic drought on the High Plains from eastern Colorado and western Kansas southward. Meanwhile, spotty rains kept the southeastern drought at bay-at least temporarily-despite underlying long-term rainfall deficits. Elsewhere, rapidly fluctuating conditions affected the West, where unusually heavy precipitation followed a mid-month heat wave. Western water-supply prospects for the spring and summer runoff season remained mostly favorable, except in California and the Great Basin.
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