date:Oct 19, 2012
on Thursday.
The large majority of that drought we expect to persist,said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration. We even see drought expandingwestward ... into Montana, Idaho and part of Oregon andWashington.
The dry area includes parts of Kansas, the largest U.S.producer of bread-making quality hard red winter wheat.Some light rains are expected over the next week in thedrier areas of the U.S. Plains' hard red winter states ofNebraska and South Da