After a very wet spring and one of the wettest 365 day periods on record for the state, recent dry and hot weather has concerns of drought back on the radar. The featured chart depicts trailing day precipitation departures and the analyzed US Drought Monitor for Corning (southwestern Iowa). Focusing on the most recent data, one can see a very large difference between near term (31 and 91 day) precipitation departures and that of the past 365 days. Such large differences like these are currently common over much of southern Iowa with reports starting to trickle in of water stressed crops. Given the current forecast, having drought officially analyzed in the state again does not appear to be far off.

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