Statewide Iowa — The climate-driving weather system known as La Nina may be sticking around still longer, impacting how Iowa’s weather evolves well past summer.
Meteorologist Dennis Todey director of the USDA’s Midwest Climate Hub in Ames, says the experts had expected La Nina to fade this spring.
Todey says the forecasting models for the next several months show a tendency toward above-normal temperatures and a lack of rain.
Todey says there is the potential for more heat and expanding drought areas into summer, both in Iowa and across the region.
A La Nina event occurs when Pacific Ocean surface temperatures cool, and it influences weather across North America.
