Area Weather stations vary from.. 2.72" for July precip to.. 0.15"  Out of 10 weather stations.. only 2 over an 1.0" 4 between 0.40" and 0.67" and 4 under 0.30"

Generally pretty dry July even for us.. averaged 0.705"  A Year ago the ten stations averaged 4.92" from 8" down to 1.51".. 1.94" then 3rd dryest was 3.52".. so ALOT more moisture as well as more general distribution.. and most everyone had a dryland corn crop..

This year.. we've been fortunate enough to get about 1.5" 17 days ago.. timing was great.. but even that is running out now.. A lot of fields are pretty fired up.. see Mason Iowa pic's below.. and even saw a disk and tractor in a dryland corn field yesterday..  Dryland corn in this area.. probably sub 50 will catch.. 67% of it.. is what I'm guessing..  LOT's of dryland beans.. still hanging on for now.. but.. we got a little precip this morning.. most stations say less than 0.05"

Jeff has an update out..  We're in the Red below.. some area's NW Kansas may have picked up more precip than we have.. with the monsoonal flow out west..???  later..

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First, the next two images shows the precipitation that has been observed the past 2 weeks, along with the departure from normal.  Obviously it has really dried out across a lot of the area, but there is also those areas that continue to be wet.