Iowa Ag Weather Report, September 20, 2015

The past reporting week began with dry and unseasonably warm and windy weather. Daytime high temperatures were mostly in the eighties through Thursday (17th). There were a few scattered very light rain showers on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but no accumulations of consequence. Rain was widespread on Thursday and Friday with rain totals of two inches or more common from southwest into east central Iowa. Dry weather returned for the weekend. Daytime highs cooled to the low sixties northwest to the mid-seventies southeast on Friday, were near 70 on Saturday and mostly mid-seventies on Sunday (20th).

Temperature extremes varied from afternoon highs of 92 degrees at Burlington and Donnellson on Thursday to morning lows of 39 degrees at Sibley on Saturday (19th) and 38 degrees at Elkader on Sunday (20th). Temperatures for the week as a whole averaged 4.7 degrees above normal. Rain totals varied from only 0.03 inches at Little Sioux to 4.22 inches at North English and 4.10 inches at Lost Nation. The statewide average precipitation was 1.18 inches while normal for the week is 0.77 inches. Finally, there were also several reports of hail Thursday evening across southeastern Iowa, roughly along a Davis to Scott County line.

Iowa Dept. of Ag