As mostly guided by crop insurance dates, the start of the production agriculture growing season in Iowa is just mere days away. So it is a good time to check in on soil moisture analyses with today's featured chart presenting ERA5Land based soil water estimated within the top 1 meter of soil for a location near Ames. With data back to 1950, a climatology is produced along with the 2025 value. The ERA5Land data source is delayed by about seven days, so the bit of rain on 2 April isn't shown within the 2025 data yet. That issue aside, a drier than average situation to start off March has improved some during the month, which is the typical case shown by increasing climatolgy as limited evaporation and no plant usage allow for March rains to efficiently replenish soil moisture. April has gotten off to a decent start moisture wise, but totals over the next seven days look meager.

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