An active weather pattern brought significant rainfall to many areas, while locations outside the storm track remained mostly dry. Areas from western Missouri into southern Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and northern Michigan recorded 200–400% of normal precipitation for the week. In contrast, areas from southeast Missouri to central Illinois and into Ohio and Kentucky received less than 25% of normal precipitation. Northern Iowa and northern Minnesota were also drier than normal.

Temperatures were above normal across most of the region, with only northern Michigan and Minnesota near or slightly below normal. Parts of Illinois, Missouri, and western Indiana were 9–12 degrees above normal. Dry and warm conditions allowed abnormally dry conditions to expand across southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. Moderate drought expanded across much of eastern and northern Kentucky, while extreme drought expanded over the “bootheel” of Missouri and into far western Kentucky.

In northern Missouri, eastern Illinois, and southern and western Iowa, abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions improved this week, supported by short-term indicators.

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