Recent rains have created some improvements in drought conditions across the state, but the long term prognosis for breaking out of the historic dry spell is less than promising. The National Weather Service said in its latest drought briefing on September 23, 2012 that remnants of Hurricane Isaac and other storm systems that have moved across the area returned soil moisture across much of Missouri to near normal for the middle of September. The weather services also cited a national agriculture service report that showed nearly two thirds of Missouri farm fields have very poor topsoil moisture.