The featured map presents an analysis of total precipitation based on the NCEI daily accumulated precipitation climatology for July. The map shows a remarkable amount of variability with amounts over five inches found over northeastern Iowa and values closer to three inches found over northwestern Iowa. Climatologies computed at this short of time scale (30 years) and for a short duration of days (just a month) tend to be a bit noisy as individual wet/dry years of the recent past can heavily influence the averages. Actual rainfall totals this July have been hit or miss with about everyone now missing out with a dry week ahead and increasingly warm temperatures.

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