By late May, the Southeast could have used some of the rain that wouldn't stop falling on the Midwest. From March 1 to May 24, less than half of the normal amount of rain had fallen on many places in South Carolina, Georgia and parts of North Carolina, Alabama and the Florida peninsula. The pattern of heavy rain across the Midwest and dryness in the Southeast was similar to the weather pattern that brought the 1993 floods to the Midwest.