Iowa Weekly Weather Summary, September 18, 2016

Rainfall totals averaged above normal for the tenth week among the past 13 weeks. The great majority of this week’s rain fell between Thursday morning and Friday morning with heaviest rains falling across northwest and west central Iowa. Rain also fell across all but the northwest and southeast corners of the state on Monday with a few locations, mainly in the southwest, picking up more than an inch of rain with this early week event. Rain totals for the week as a whole varied from none over small parts of far southeastern Iowa such as De Witt, Muscatine and Burlington to 6.04 inches at Little Sioux in Harrison County. The statewide average precipitation was 2.00 inches while normal for the week is 0.78 inches.

Temperatures were above normal for most of the week with daytime highs climbing into the mid-eighties in a few areas on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Temperature extremes varied from Monday afternoon high of 87 degrees at Shenandoah and Sidney to a Wednesday morning low of 40 degrees at Sheldon. Temperatures for the week as a whole averaged 3.4 degrees above normal.

Source:  Harry Hillaker, State Climatologist, Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship