Significant precipitation events continue to be hard to come by with the most recent round over the weekend clipping southeastern Iowa with only modest totals reported. Des Moines missed out completely with just a trace reported. The featured chart presents a trailing 31 day heatmap of precipitation percent of average values. The bottom row shows the 2023 data and there is very little blue (above average) to be found since the first of April. Compare this fall with what happened last year during September and especially from November into January of this year. The wet enough period that lasted into March likely helped out just enough for crops not to be a complete failure during the growing season this year. The near term forecast looks bone dry, so our luck appears not to change any time soon.

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Tags:   2023