It's the wettest year ever up to this date
August 10, 2010

It turns out that it's not just been our imaginations running wild: 2010 has been the wettest year on record from January 1st to August 9th at Des Moines -- with a lead measured in inches above 2008 and 1993, which were both catastrophic years for flooding. If it weren't to rain another drop through December 31st, this would still go down as the 18th-rainiest year on record here, but we would be crazy to think that it's going to stop now. Overnight storms dropped 6 inches of rain on some parts of southeastern Iowa. Municipal wastewater treatment plants across the state are being pushed harder than usual due to inflow and infiltration, and the rainfall has been enough to raise lagoon levels measurably.

August 2010
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last revised August 2010