Last Monday's daily feature looked at the previous weekend's rainfall in relation to the US Drought Monitor. Here we are again on this Monday comparing the weekend rainfall against the US Drought Monitor. The featured map presents percent of average precipitation since the 20th. Since the rainfall on Saturday into Sunday was the only rainfall of this period, the plot is an assessment of where the rainfall had any significant impact over this period. For example, getting a half of an inch on Saturday really isn't all that much when considering the previous week was bone dry and climatology is about an inch. The areas in blue got enough rain over the weekend to top climatology over the past week. Areas in the dark red really missed out over the weekend with far southern and southwestern Iowa faring the worst. There are actually chances for rain during the work week this week, so perhaps we won't need to wait until the weekend. It is definitely crunch time for the corn crop over the next few weeks as it enters a very important development period before and during tasseling.

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