IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 07 August 2014

Needed Rainfall in August

Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:45 AM

After numerous heavy rainfall events in June, the spigot had mostly closed in July with rainfall events few and far between. Heavy rainfall returned to the state on Wednesday with some locations in western Iowa receiving over 4-6 inches! The featured map is estimated precipitation totals based on RADAR from the MRMS project. While its totals are perhaps a bit overdone, some very localized spots probably got over six inches yesterday. More rainfall is in the forecast for today, but totals will be much smaller.

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