IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Drought Changes
Posted: 10 Jul 2014 05:40 AM
The wet month of June has mostly eliminated the drought situation in Iowa as analyzed by
the US Drought Monitor. This monitor product is updated weekly by a national team of
experts and depicts various intensities in drought. The featured chart looks at the weekly
changes in this analysis with blue lines being improvements and red lines are
degradation. It will be interesting to see if this July/August follows the previous three
years with drought quickly developing after the heavy rainfalls of spring and early summer
subside. The length of the arrows indicate a relative intensity change with the unit value
being an equivalent one category change over the area the size of Iowa.
Voting:
Good = 10
Bad = 2
Abstain = 4
Tags: drought
Voting:
Good = 10
Bad = 2
Abstain = 4
Tags: drought