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On average, the contiguous United States received 4.36 inches of rain in May. That's 1.45 inches above average and the most since record-keeping began 121 years ago.
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After years of drought, Oklahoma has been hit by torrential downpours causing severe flooding. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Tom Buchanan, a local farmer and president of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
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More than two dozen people are confirmed dead in flooding that's inundated parts of Texas and Oklahoma. Emergency workers are continuing to search for the missing, but more rain is expected.
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Given the choice between the crippling drought of the past nearly five years and the ongoing threat of flooding Oklahoma farmers and ranchers are…
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Oklahoma continues to battle flooding from storms in the region, which brought the state out of a four-year drought. Rain is expected every day until Sunday.
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As the storms lumber eastward, they broke extreme weather records in northern Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Dozens of people have been killed in flooding, tornadoes or are missing.
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Twelve people are missing in Texas amid violent weather. More rain is in the forecast.
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Severe storms are creating massive flooding in Texas, Oklahoma and throughout the Great Plains. Meteorologists say this downpour most likely ended the years long drought for that portion of the West — but it comes at a high cost.
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Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of the Plains and Midwest on Sunday, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and…