Statewide Iowa — The final days of July saw some blast furnace-type temperatures but State Climatologist Just Glisan says they weren’t enough to push the month above average.
Glisan says some two to four-inch rains in the last few days of the month gave some areas above-average precipitation. But other areas of the state missed those quenching rains.
He says some areas just haven’t been able to make up the precipitation shortfall through the first seven months of 2021.
Glisan says the dry pattern has done a total flip of the situation we had when 2018 and 2019 combined were the wettest two-year period since records have been kept. He says the calendar year temperature numbers don’t show anything unusual.
Glisan says the July tornado outbreak that was seen between the 20th and 22nd was the biggest blip on the record book as there is an average of just seven confirmed tornadoes in the month.
