Statewide Iowa — Recent rains have helped with dry conditions but they have been spread out and some areas of the state could use much more rain.
The Iowa DNR’s Tim Hall says severe drought conditions expanded in June from 12 counties in northwest Iowa across nearly all of northern Iowa.
While the severe drought has spread across the state the rain we did get in June was beneficial.
Streamflow conditions across approximately half of the state remain in the below normal condition. Hall says other states are in worse shape coming out of June.
He says that is a big contrast to the flood fears on the Missouri River in the last couple of years.
Hall says the crops need continued moisture as they grow and there is hope we can get more rain as we move through July.
