The summer was harsh on Iowa in 2023, but there are some possibilities for its effects to be lessened.

State Climatologist Justin Glisan tells Raccoon Valley Radio how things could be turned around in the coming months.

“Several months of above average rainfall, cooler temperatures, infiltration of moisture into the soil profiles, all those different hydrological and meteorological variables that go into drought and the removal of drought. We need to see them trending in the right direction.”

Glisan says that he’s confident that during fall, the El Nino storms that will work their way up the Gulf and into the US should help with drought conditions. He mentions that based off past occurrences and recorded outcomes, if drought conditions don’t get better, they should at least stop getting worse.