(Des Moines) Iowa’s State Climatologist Justin Glisan says 2022 is going down as the 25th driest in Iowa over the past 150 years of record keeping. “We only had three months of above-average precipitation, and overall across the state for 2022, total precipitation is around 27.3 inches, which is eight inches below average.”
Glisan says Iowa is extremely dry heading into the third year of this drought. “Hopefully, we will see a shift in the large-scale weather pattern that brings us more precipitation entering into late winter and spring,” said Glisan. “The hope is we start to break the drought in 2023.”
