Rainy Week Helps End Drought In Some Areas

(Johnston, IA) — Some Iowa communities report breaking rainfall records this past week that have stood for more than a century. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the new U-S Drought Monitor map for Iowa shows improving conditions, with fewer counties indicated as being abnormally dry or in drought. Glisan says it has been very beneficial in regions where we’ve seen the abnormally dry conditions. The entire southern tier of counties is in the clear, along with wide areas of western and southeast Iowa. The worst of the dry conditions, D-2 or severe drought, remain in central and north-central Iowa, with a small patch in the northwest.