Even with the 2025 growing season completed, the degrading drought situation for Iowa continues to be of concern. Significant rainfalls this fall season have been fickle and some large departures are starting to accumulate. One such example is Cedar Rapids. The featured chart presents trailing 31, 91, and 365 day precipitation departures from average along with the analyzed US Drought Monitor classification underlain over the past two years. The 31 day departures this time of year can be underwhelming as average values are already at meager amounts. So the current 91 and 365 day departures better show the impact of the dry fall as departures have increased over the past month. The fall and spring seasons are an important time for soil moisture recharge, so much of the state will probably need a wet spring season to help make up for the dry end to the growing season this year and dry fall so far.

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