(Des Moines) According to State Climatologist Justin Glisan, near average temperatures and below-average precipitation describes the meteorological winter across the entire state of Iowa.
Glisan says the 2021-2022 winter months go down as the top 15th driest, with a snowfall deficit of 10 inches.
Glisan says western Iowa was warmer and dryer than the rest of the state.
Glisan says there is no clear signal for above or below temperature readings for March; however, there is an elevated signal for wetter conditions this month.
For February, Iowa had a statewide average temperature of 21-degrees, which is three degrees colder than usual. The average temperature in southwest Iowa was 26-degrees, 1.6 – degrees below normal.
Glisan says the average liquid-equivalent precipitation across the state totaled three-tenths of an inch, nine-tenths of an inch below normal. Even though February is the third driest month of the year climatologically, out of 150 years, this will be the top 15th driest on record.
The southwest portion of the state totaled one inch of snow, almost six inches below average. The liquid equivalent totaled two-tenths of an inch for the southwest corner of the state, nine-tenths of an inch dryer than average.
