What's really arresting are the crop condition numbers for the Great Plains states.
Texas winter wheat - 77% poor or very poor condition
Oklahoma winter wheat - 68% poor or very poor condition
Colorado winter wheat - 65% poor or very poor condition
South Dakota winter wheat - 56% poor or very poor condition
Nebraska winter wheat - 51% poor or very poor condition
Kansas winter wheat - 50% poor or very poor condition
Texas sorghum - 40% poor or very poor condition
South Dakota oats - 39% poor or very poor condition
South Dakota spring wheat - 39% poor or very poor
Oklahoma cotton - 37% poor or very poor
Texas cotton - 37% poor or very poor.
From the Monitor:
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The Plains and Midwest: Widespread heavy rainfall ended dryness in parts of northern and east-central Missouri, and improved conditions to D0 in northwestern parts of the state. Weekly totals of 3 to 6 inches were common in these regions. Meanwhile, fairly widespread rainfall totals of 1 to 4 inches abetted improvement to D0 across northwestern Arkansas and to D1 in extreme northeastern Texas and adjacent Oklahoma.
Isolated heavy rains led to small areas of improvement in other parts of the Plains and Midwest, and scattered moderate totals kept conditions unchanged in sections of South Dakota and the northern half of Nebraska. Also, a re-assessment of the affects from last week’s inundating rainfall in coastal southeastern Texas led to improvements to D2 near the immediate coastline. Unfortunately, relatively dry conditions elsewhere led to broad areas of dryness expansion and drought deterioration. Growing moisture deficits prompted the expansion of D0 conditions into the northwestern Great Lakes region, and through a broad area extending from eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota southward through much of Iowa and the eastern sections of Nebraska and Kansas. D0 also encroached into northern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. Meanwhile, D1 to D2 classifications expanded in central South Dakota and Nebraska, west-central Missouri and adjacent Kansas, part of southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas, and broad sections of central and western Texas while D3 conditions expanded to include southwestern Kansas, east-central and northeastern Colorado, parts of south-central and southwestern Nebraska, and north-central South Dakota.
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West: Similar to areas farther east, isolated heavy rains led to small areas of drought improvement, but dryness persisted or deteriorated in a vast majority of the Rockies and Southwest. In response to increasing short-term moisture deficits and high to extreme fire danger, D0 conditions expanded in part of far western Wyoming, and conditions deteriorated to D1 or D2 in several parts of the remainder of Wyoming and in central and north-central sections of Colorado. Early this week, more than 80 percent of rangelands across Arizona and New Mexico were in poor or very poor conditions, as was 66 percent of New Mexico sorghum. Through June 12, 2006, one-year precipitation totals were under 50 percent of normal across large sections of central and southwestern Arizona.
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http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html