It is never too late to look back on how remarkably wet December was in Iowa. The featured chart presents the statistical distribution of December precipitation for long term stations tracked in the state by the IEM. The green lines represent the long term climatology and the blue lines/bars represent what actually happened in December 2015. The distribution for 2015 is way to the right of what climatology says should happen. Remarkably, only a few stations were even within +2 sigma from the long term average!

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