IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 26 July 2018

D3 Expansion

Posted: 26 Jul 2018 08:06 AM


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Image courtesy of US Drought Monitor website.
The newly released US Drought Monitor depicts a worsening drought situation of parts of southern Iowa. The "D3" classification was spatially expanded slightly this week. The featured map is from the US Drought Monitor website and also presents some statistics regarding spatial coverage over Iowa. The current forecast for the next week is not very optimistic for significant rainfall over this area or other areas in the state.

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