Well, for ducks anyway. If you were a cattle rancher in the western Dakota's, it was not a great couple of weeks, they lost thousands of cattle from the heavy snow followed by rain....
National Drought Summary for Oct 15, 2013
It was another wet week across the northern half of the Plains. At least an inch fell on a broad area from most of Nebraska (except interior western sections), easternmost Wyoming and adjacent Nebraska, the Dakotas, much of central and western Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa. Many of these areas recorded 2 to 4 inches of precipitation, with isolated totals of up to 6 inches recorded in parts of the Dakotas. In the past 30 days, over 4 inches of precipitation has fallen on the central and southern Dakotas, near the Nebraska/Wyoming border, in eastern Nebraska, and in a more broken pattern across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excessive amounts of 6 to 10 inches were fairly widespread across and adjacent to the central and southern Dakotas, eastern Nebraska, and along the Nebraska/Wyoming border.
Farther east, a slow-moving storm along the mid-Atlantic coast brought heavy rain to areas from the Outer Banks of North Carolina northward through northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, central and southern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey. Totals above 4 inches were widespread from Delaware, southern Maryland, and northern Virginia northward into central Pennsylvania, with excessive amounts locally exceeding 1 foot soaking parts of south-central Pennsylvania and the Washington, DC area.
Moderate to heavy rainfall was more scattered in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, the southern Great Plains, and portions of the lower Mississippi Valley west of the Mississippi River. However, excessive rains of 4 to nearly 10 inches doused southwestern Texas and small areas in east-central and western Texas, and eastern Oklahoma. 30-day totals exceeded 6 inches in numerous areas outside the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, with the largest amounts (12 to nearly 20 inches) were observed near the southern reaches of the Texas/Louisiana border.
Scattered moderate to heavy precipitation also fell on some of the higher elevations in the central Rockies and Hawaii while light to locally moderate amounts were measured in other areas of dryness and drought across the country.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu
National Drought Summary for Oct 15, 2013
It was another wet week across the northern half of the Plains. At least an inch fell on a broad area from most of Nebraska (except interior western sections), easternmost Wyoming and adjacent Nebraska, the Dakotas, much of central and western Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa. Many of these areas recorded 2 to 4 inches of precipitation, with isolated totals of up to 6 inches recorded in parts of the Dakotas. In the past 30 days, over 4 inches of precipitation has fallen on the central and southern Dakotas, near the Nebraska/Wyoming border, in eastern Nebraska, and in a more broken pattern across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excessive amounts of 6 to 10 inches were fairly widespread across and adjacent to the central and southern Dakotas, eastern Nebraska, and along the Nebraska/Wyoming border.
Farther east, a slow-moving storm along the mid-Atlantic coast brought heavy rain to areas from the Outer Banks of North Carolina northward through northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, central and southern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey. Totals above 4 inches were widespread from Delaware, southern Maryland, and northern Virginia northward into central Pennsylvania, with excessive amounts locally exceeding 1 foot soaking parts of south-central Pennsylvania and the Washington, DC area.
Moderate to heavy rainfall was more scattered in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, the southern Great Plains, and portions of the lower Mississippi Valley west of the Mississippi River. However, excessive rains of 4 to nearly 10 inches doused southwestern Texas and small areas in east-central and western Texas, and eastern Oklahoma. 30-day totals exceeded 6 inches in numerous areas outside the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, with the largest amounts (12 to nearly 20 inches) were observed near the southern reaches of the Texas/Louisiana border.
Scattered moderate to heavy precipitation also fell on some of the higher elevations in the central Rockies and Hawaii while light to locally moderate amounts were measured in other areas of dryness and drought across the country.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu
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