Later Wednesday, Tropical Depression Fred will move across the Northeast, delivering additional rainfall totaling 2 to 4 inches or more. Meanwhile, unsettled, showery weather will continue across the mid-South and environs, resulting in 5-day totals of 2 to 4 inches or more. Significant rain (locally 1 to 3 inches) should also occur from the Intermountain West— including Wyoming, Utah, and western Colorado—to the northern Plains and upper Midwest. The Northern rain is arriving too late for drought-damaged small grains—but could begin to revive pastures and may benefit later-developing summer crops, such as soybeans.

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