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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region - September 2017

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NIDIS/NOAA

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region - September 2017 (1.17 MB)

Document Date

September 27, 2017

Document Type

Outlooks

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region for June – August 2017. Dated September 2017.

After a drought-free May, areas of moderate drought were introduced in Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri on the U.S. Drought Monitor in June. Drought continued to intensify across Iowa and to a lesser extent eastern Missouri and west-central Illinois during the summer. Ames, Iowa experienced its driest June–July on record.

NOAA’s Regional Climate Services Program created these Climate Outlooks to inform the public about recent climate impacts within their respective regions. Each regional report contains easy-to-understand language, and anyone can access them through the Drought Portal at https://www.drought.gov/drought/resources/reports.