Iowa Weakly Weather Summary, June 5, 2016

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It was a warm week across Iowa with seasonal precipitation. Temperatures were above normal for most of the week although a few areas of northern Iowa slipped slightly cooler than normal on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Temperature extremes varied from Thursday (2nd) morning lows of 45 degrees at Britt and Forest City to a Friday (3rd) afternoon high of 90 degrees at Little Sioux. Temperatures for the week as a whole averaged 3.1 degrees above normal.

Thunderstorms were widespread on Monday (30th), Tuesday (31st) and Friday (3rd). Heaviest rains mostly fell over north central and northeast Iowa while scattered areas of west central, central and south central Iowa saw less than one-quarter inch of rain for the week. Rain totals varied from 0.11 inches at Jamaica (Guthrie County) to 3.95 inches at New Hartford (Butler County). The statewide average precipitation was 0.99 inches, just slightly under the weekly normal of 1.13 inches.

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

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