One decent rain doesn’t break a drought

A senior service hydrologist at the National Weather Service in St. Louis says the rains that came to Missouri over the weekend were hit and miss.

Mark Fuchs says the best rainfall was along the western side of the state between Warrensburg and Independence, getting more than one inch of rain. He says a half inch or less was noted in other areas of the state with a few exceptions.

“The driest areas that really got robbed were northeast and southeast Missouri.

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