Parts of Iowa flooded after storm events that dumped two months worth of rain

By: Cami Koons

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: July 6, 2026

Words: 754

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Some areas of Iowa received more than two month’s worth of rain in a 36-hour period, leaving fields and basements flooded, according to the latest Iowa weather summary and crop progress and condition report.

Justin Glisan, the state climatologist, wrote in the weekly weather summary that storms formed in a “ring of fire” pattern around the heat dome that hit much of the country during the first week of July. The statewide average temperature for …

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