The weekly US Drought Monitor considers the past seven days of precipitation up until Tuesday morning to produce an updated analysis released on Thursday morning. So the featured map presents the combination of the past seven days MRMS estimated precipitation departures from average along with the Drought Monitor from last week. Of course, one map does not tell the complete story in the process of updating the analyzed drought, but this map at least indicates areas that have the potential for improvements or degradation. The big rains on July 4th mostly missed far southern Iowa and this area continues to be trending dry. Clayton County (far NE Iowa) got some significant rainfall last night and maybe could see some improvements. Rainfall patterns are often complex and at a finer spatial scale than what attempts to be captured by the drought monitor.

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