Drought Update

Latest reports came out and the state of Iowa is making progress on its drought conditions, but where do we stand? I wrote a blog in January after some significant snowfalls to see where we stood after the drought of 2012. At that point we were 12 inches of rain short.  Since then we have received some additional snow, but not enough to get the Des Moines area out of a "severe drought".  Here is the comparison between then and now:

January/2013-

And now, April/2013

As you can see, the SE part of Iowa is normal, Central and NW Iowa are still in a severe drought or worse. Thanks to Ed Wilson, from WHO-TV13, he provided me with a link to see where we are supposed to be precipitation-wise, it looks like we haven't made much progress here in the Des Moines metro area.

The positive is that since January/2013 we're almost right where we need to be for this year, but we're still close to a 1/2" short.  The negative is we haven't made progress on the drought of 2012.