With the summer months of June, July, and August (JJA) now in the books, it is a good time to review how the summer fared. The featured map presents an IEM estimate of climate district average temperature ranks for the period. A rank of 1 would indicate that 2022 was the warmest since at least 1893 and 130 the coolest. Values in Iowa are in the 50 to 70 range, so most are slightly warmer than a median rank value of 65. Looking more broadly, we don't find too much for extreme values in the corn belt with the warmest areas off to the south and west. Looking forward in time, the seasonal forecast outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center continue to advertise an above normal chance at warmer than average weather for the period with the highest chances again off to our west.

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