Starting around mid-June, much of the state began receiving significant amounts of rainfall and it did not take long to remove all analyzed drought classifications within the US Drought Monitor for Iowa. The wet pattern continued into July, but some parts of the state missed out during August and now with a very dry start to September, drought is again back on many folks minds. One of the driest locations since early August is southeastern Iowa. The featured chart presents trailing 31 day percent of average precipitation totals evaluated each day since the start of 2005. The bottom row of data tells the 2025 story with well above average during early August being replaced with a below average value by September. Rainfall totals over the next seven days look very meager and with increasing temperatures, additional drought impacts will likely show up shortly.

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