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The areas of Iowa still under abnormally dry conditions include portions of Scott and Clinton counties, according to the monitor's weekly report. How does Iowa's drought status compare to the ...
Drought concerns prompted Iowa's Poweshiek Water Association to issue a mandatory water conservation order this month to customers in eight counties and surrounding areas.
Nearly 48% of Iowa still struggles with moderate to severe drought, and about 2% of Iowa — seven counties in northeast Iowa — is still in extreme drought, according to the Drought Monitor that ...
Percent Area in U.S. Drought Monitor Categories since year 2000. A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo: Arthur Rothstein. The United States' contiguous western and especially southwestern region has experienced widespread drought since about year 2000.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report, released Thursday, shows 24% of Iowa remains in abnormally dry conditions, primarily in northeast and central Iowa. It's a drastic change from late December ...
That was far less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States, but the drought of 1988–1990 not only ranks as the costliest drought in United States history, it was one of the costliest natural disasters in United States history. In Canada, drought-related losses added to $1.8 billion (1988 Canadian dollars).
Iowa's drought is now the longest since the 1950s, the state's climatologist says. Over four years, it's short nearly 28 inches of rain. At 188 weeks, Iowa's drought is the longest since the 1950s ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 710 square miles (1,800 km 2), of which 695 square miles (1,800 km 2) is land and 15 square miles (39 km 2) (2.1%) is water. [6] It includes the easternmost point in the state of Iowa, on the Mississippi River in Elk River township in the northeast section of the county.