IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 09 August 2019

Drought Vacation Over

Posted: 09 Aug 2019 05:34 AM

The featured chart depicts a time series of coverage of US Drought Monitor classifications over Iowa since August 2017. A very wet fall of 2018 erased the drought at the time and a wet winter into spring season kept it away. Conditions have turned dry this summer and the coverage of drought is on the increase. The latest US Drought Monitor released yesterday now has over 30% of the state analyzed in the "D0 Abnormally Dry" category.

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