date:Jun 09, 2013
sday morning, down 3.96 percentage points from a week earlier, the monitor showed, as rainfall improved conditions from South Dakota to Oklahoma.
Only 3.45% of the Midwest was in drought on Tuesday, down 0.11 percentage point from a week earlier, the monitor showed. Unusually wet weather delayed planting of corn crops in the Midwest this spring.
The contiguous U.S. was 44.11% affected by drought, down 0.23 point from a week earlier.