date:Oct 19, 2012
the northern Plains, where 0.50-1.00 totals were quite common. But several small stations in northeast North Dakota near the Canadian border are reporting amounts of over 1 inch (one spot even had over 2 inches). The area totally missing on rains yesterday was the hard-red winter wheat belt, where rain remains badly needed to get wheat germinated, especially in northwest Kansas, west Nebraska, and northeast Colorado.
Rainfall chances will remain poor probably right through the next 10 days fo