IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 23 August 2013

Missing most of D1

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:44 AM

The updated US Drought Monitor released on Thursday shows most of west- central and central Iowa in moderate drought status. The featured map shows the drought monitor along with two day rainfall from our most recent event. The heaviest totals were an inch or two and mostly missed the D1 area. While this rainfall will not dent the drought as we need an inch or two every week just to keep pace with climatology, every little bit helps! The bad news is that our chances of widespread rain are over for the immediate future and the weather is about to get very hot, which is increase the stress on moisture starved plants.

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