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About 23% of Iowa's corn acres and 19% of its soybean acres are in an extreme drought, according to Gro Intelligence, a New York-based data and analytics firm that analyzed Thursday's drought ...
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 ...
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 ...
A drought developed in the Western, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States in the summer of 2020. [3] Similar conditions started in other states in August 2020, including Iowa, Nebraska and certain parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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 ...
The catastrophic drought continued across the Upper Midwest and northern Great Plains states during 1989, not officially ending until 1990. [6] [7] Dry conditions continued during 1989, affecting Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, parts of Nebraska, [8] [9] Minnesota, [10] [11] Kansas and large portions of Colorado.
On Sunday, dry and windy conditions helped a grass fire spread in south Kansas City. Monday’s rain offers some relief, but it’s not enough to pull us out of the drought. Even with rain ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday will enact its drought protocol. That means less water will be released to the Kansas River.