(Radio Iowa) - The map released this morning by the U-S Drought Monitor shows -all- of Iowa is again experiencing some level of drought.
Last week's map showed about two-and-a-half percent of the state was still in the normal category, but even that's gone now. The new map indicates about 16-percent of Iowa is abnormally dry, all in south-central Iowa, while almost two-thirds of the state is in moderate drought.
That leaves about 19-percent that's in severe drought, with large patches of that category in northwest, west-central and northeast Iowa.