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Temperatures were warmer than normal from coast to coast, with the highest temperature departures in the High Plains to Mid-Atlantic states.  Showers and thunderstorms moved across the northern Plains and into the Midwest, but rainfall amounts were mostly below normal.  Above-normal precipitation fell in places along the North Dakota/South Dakota border, from northeast South Dakota to northern Illinois, from the Ohio Valley to Mid-Atlantic States, and across parts of Nebraska and Kansas.  Above-normal precipitation also fell across parts of the southern Plains to Southeast. The Southwest Monsoon continued this week, bringing above-normal precipitation to much of the Four Corners (AZ, UT, CO, NM) and reducing drought and abnormal dryness.  But drier-than-normal weather dominated the rest of the West, most of the Plains, much of the Midwest and South, and parts of the Mid-Atlantic and New England.  Soils continued to dry out and crops suffered as drought and abnormal dryness continued to expand or intensify across the Plains, Midwest, northern Rockies, and Virginia.