IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 30 December 2024

2024: Precipitation Departures

Posted: 30 Dec 2024 09:30 AM

Going into 2024, the drought from 2023 was of great concern as significant precipitation departures had accumulated going into the spring of this year. A wet spring made up much of the deficits with the entire state being drought free by July. A very dry fall season followed, with drought concerns returning once again. Heavy rainfall events returned going into November and the result of all this "whip-lash" is the subject of today's featured map. It presents a crude analysis of station precipitation departures for the year to date period. A few portions of the state are shown a few inches below average with the most wide-spread dryness found over southwestern Iowa. We'll have another rain and snowfall event to end 2024 with some modest improvements perhaps to these deficits as the heaviest totals are expected over southern Iowa.

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