dw, that drought monitor map looks bad, but the yellow can disappear in one week. Next week my guess is Nebraska looks a lot better. But, drought seems to spread from west to east. California's 2011 to 2017 drought spread to the high plains and some of corn growing country to the easy of the high plains. California has been well below normal since the start of their rainy season beginning in October. Most of the state had normal rain in October and November. In December where the northern parts gets 6 " in December, nothing.January looks slightly below normal. If February/March and half of normal, it will be the whole rainy season half of normal. Not a crisis for them, their reservoirs really filled up la year ago. But, spreading of the drought really affects other states the most.

The 10 day looks rather dry out west, but again,spring rains can change all this in one week in the high plains. Little precip falls this time of the year anyway.

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/r...alwx_10day

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ne/n...alwx_10day

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/mo/k...alwx_10day

You got some stow coming Thursday>>>
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/mo/s...alwx_10day