With July in the books, it is a good time to look back on how close to average it was. The featured chart presents July precipitation and Growing Degree Day departures for Ames. The departures are standardized by being presented with units of sigma. This year's value was not too far from average for precipitation and a bit below average for GDDs. Being the warmest month of the year, having a slightly below average GDD accumulation was likely very positive to agricultural crops and certainly was positive to a majority of vegetation that remains quite green going into August.

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