The weekly US Drought Monitor update was released on Thursday and had a tiny portion of northwestern Iowa in D3 "Extreme" classification. The featured plot presents a weekly time series of the areal percentage of Iowa within a given drought classification. The D3 introduction last summer was somewhat short lived, so hopefully such can be the case again this year. The overall coverage for the state is still below 50%, but the calendar now says July and heat stress along with dry weather become ever more common for Iowa.

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