The US Drought Monitor website is an excellent resource for drought information and has recently added maps showing the weekly change in drought classification. The featured map is courtesy of their website and shows the one week change from last week to this week over the Midwest. For Iowa, no improvements are to be found and plenty of degradation. The rainfall from last weekend mostly missed the driest areas of the state and barely kept up with climatology over the areas that did get rain. Significant rainfall is needed soon and very soon! There are rain chances for this weekend again, so cross all your fingers.

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