Update - May 2, 2015

In the last post I did on the April 28th, I showed a map of the widespread heavy rainfall event that was centered on west central Oklahoma.  This made a huge dent on the on-going drought. April ended up being very wet across the hardest hit areas of the drought and there has been much improvement.  At some locations the improvement was dramatic!

Due to other obligations, I cannot write up a detailed post about next weeks weather (I will do my best on Monday).  But, it does appear that it will get active across the plains, including west Texas and the panhandles!  Some areas will get heavy rains again!  But, also the threat of severe weather will be increasing so crop ending hail will be occurring in some of the bigger storms.  The Weather Prediction Center offers one possibility on moisture - don't take the amounts and locations literally.  In general though, many areas of the plains will see 2 to 3 inches of rain next week (and some locations over 5 inches) .  Unfortunately, there will still be a few spots that don't benefit much.  The good news is that additional active weather will occur the following week.