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Percent area of the U.S. South (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) that experienced extremely high 1-day precipitation totals--in the top ten percent--during all springs (march-May) from 1910 to 2020 (bars). The darker blue line shows the rolling 5-year average, which has increased significantly in the past 15 years. NOAA Climate.gov graph, based on data from NCEI.