(Radio Iowa) – State Climatologist Justin Glisan says March was warmer and wetter than normal and is the first month this year that we’ve seen above average precipitation.
Glisan says the driest area was southwestern Iowa, at 70 percent of normal, while central to north-central Iowa saw double the normal precipitation.
The average was about two-point-six inches across the state, almost seven tenths above average. Glisten says part of the March precipitation was above average snowfall in northern and western Iowa, and March acted more like winter than wintertime did in December, January, and February. Glisan says the statewide temperature was about six degrees above average.
