Two rapidly-moving strong storm systems brought severe weather and widespread precipitation to a good portion of the country.  Widespread rainfall and snow fell across Idaho, Montana, northeastern Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. South Dakota observed very heavy snow of over 2ft. in some places. Moderate to heavy snows also blanketed Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, and northern Illinois. In the Plains, moderate to heavy rains (1-3 inches) were measured in portion of Oklahoma and Texas, which then moved into the lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys. 

Very little precipitation fell on most of the Southwest.  For the Plain: the southern, central, and extreme northern Plains saw very little precipitation. Temperatures were mostly below-normal in the western two-thirds of the U.S., especially in the northern Plains and upper Midwest (6 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit below normal), and above-normal in the eastern third of the Nation (6 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit above normal).

For the contiguous U.S., drought decreased by about one percentage point.  There was a slight expansion of Abnormally Dry conditions in the Texas Coastal Plain, North Florida, and South Carolina.