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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region - September 2018

Document Author

NIDIS/NOAA

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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region - September 2018 (1.16 MB)

Document Date

September 21, 2018

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Midwest Region for June – August 2018. Dated September 2018.

Drought in Missouri, southern Iowa, and western Illinois worsened through the summer, peaking in mid-August. In Missouri, exceptional drought covered 5% of the state, extreme drought 25%, and severe drought 54%. Severe drought also was noted in northern parts of Lower Michigan. Summer minimum temperatures ranked among the warmest 10% in all nine Midwest states, with Ohio ranking 2nd.

NOAA’s Regional Climate Services Program created these Climate Outlooks to inform the public about recent climate impacts within their respective regions. Each regional report contains easy-to-understand language, and anyone can access them through the Drought Portal at https://www.drought.gov/drought/resources/reports.

Example image of the Climate Impacts and Outlooks report

State(s)

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kentucky

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Ohio

Wisconsin

Climate Region(s)

Midwest Climate Region