Weather for 2025 hasn’t been as severe as it was in 2024, but there have been some interesting differences that can be seen.

State Climatologist Justin Glisan says that there have been ups and downs with weather and temperatures throughout the year so far, but that at this time the state is just about half a degree above where it should be for this time of the year. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio that most of the weather variability we’ve seen is from precipitation.

“We’ve had the fourth least amount of snow this winter. And then we kind of started off dry in early spring. The first half of May was anywhere from four to six degrees above average and dry, and then we get into the second half, cooler than average. And then we turn the faucet on. So you look through the end of June, anywhere from 84 percent of normal, which is the driest part of the state, which would be southeastern Iowa, all the way to 120 percent of normal, which is that north central part of the state.”

Glisan mentions that looking back at 2024, a wet year busted a longstanding drought, only to turnaround and have a dry fall, with the two wettest months of 2025 coming when they should in May and June.