Dryness and drought continued affecting the southern and northern tiers of the region this past week while persistently wet weather over the past few months has a void of dryness and drought stretching from Iowa and northern Missouri eastward north of the Ohio River and south of the Great Lakes States. Moderate to locally heavy precipitation (1 to locally 2.5 inches) fell on the dry areas across the central Lower Peninsula of Michigan, removing most of the moderate drought there and reducing D0 coverage slightly. Farther north, only light precipitation was noted across northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and adjacent areas, resulting in broad 1-category deterioration. Exceptional Drought (D4) expanded in coverage across northern Wisconsin, and D2 conditions were brought into a large part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. To the west, drought remained essentially unchanged over most of Minnesota, with only isolated changes noted. Along the southern tier of the Midwest Region, continued subnormal precipitation allowed for areas of deterioration across central and eastern Kentucky and parts of southern Missouri while locally higher amounts prompted limited improvement in some locales near the Mississippi/Ohio Confluence and west-central Missouri.

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