State Climatologist Justin Glisan says Iowa and the entire upper midwest saw a warmer July with the average temperature here about 77 degrees — or three degrees above average.
“So, with 154 years of records, preliminarily the 25th warmest July on record, with July climatologically the warmest of any month. So that shows you just how warm we were across the state,” he says.
Glisan says July didn’t repeat last year when it was the second wettest on record.
Heat index values reached a high of 121 degrees in Burlington. The heat and humidity finally broke as the month of July ended.
