(Des Moines) Iowa State Climatologist Justin Glisan, we are entering 169 weeks of drought conditions, which breaks the record set back in 2012 of 151 weeks of at least D1 on a scale from D0 to D4.
Glisan says 97 percent of the state is in a drought, except for a small portion of southwest Iowa. Glisan says the seven-day precipitation outlook shows a wet signal.
Glisan says given the state is now entering three-plus years of drought; soil moisture profiles are not being replenished, tiles are not running, thus low-level stream flows.
The northeast portion of the state is in extreme drought (D3). Most of southwest and west central Iowa is in the D2 severe drought category.
