The drought situation in the state has been much worse for some locations than others. The featured map is an attempt to illustrate this by counting the number of days this growing season (1 May to 1 Oct) that the previous 30 days had less than 33% of average accumulation. The area to the north and west of Des Moines shows up prominently in this analysis and is where the current most significant drought depiction is located for the state. Northeastern and far western Iowa shows up favorably on this map with few days meeting this arbitrary criterion.

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Tags:   2013