 including the wetter areas but parts of the upper Mississippi Valley are in need of some additional rainfall and welcome rains are expected across the drier reaches of the eastern and southern Corn Belt with perhaps an inch or two in some locales if not locally more and again a couple strong and severe storms certainly cannot be ruled out it is a refreshing air mass a cooler drier one that will make its way all the way down into Texas and Oklahoma taking the edge off heat and humidity there and then covering a wide area