IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 15 July 2019
Monday, 15 July 2019
Drought Timescales
Posted: 15 Jul 2019 05:34 AM
After a very wet spring and one of the wettest 365 day periods on record for the state, recent dry and
hot weather has concerns of drought back on the radar. The featured chart depicts trailing day
precipitation departures and the analyzed US Drought Monitor for Corning (southwestern Iowa).
Focusing on the most recent data, one can see a very large difference between near term (31 and 91
day) precipitation departures and that of the past 365 days. Such large differences like these are
currently common over much of southern Iowa with reports starting to trickle in of water stressed
crops. Given the current forecast, having drought officially analyzed in the state again does not
appear to be far off.
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