What is typical La Nina weather in Iowa during winter months?
What is typical La Nina weather in Iowa during the winter months? It’s usually colder than normal in northern Minnesota, north of the Twin Cities. And it’s usually warmer than usual in the area south of the St. Louis to Kansas City line. So in Iowa, which is between Kansas City and Minneapolis, the winter weather can be either of these possibilities. What about the growing season for 2011? If the current La Nina is still in place in April or early May in 2011, “Iowa could expect to have a rather dry spring and that’s not bad. Except that’s what happened in 1988 and it wasn’t a La Nina event yet then. It was still a period where the weather was switching from an El Nino to a La Nina weather pattern,” says Taylor. “But in 2011, since we have been in a La Nina for awhile, it would be more like what happened in 1974,” he explains. “In fact, that is the anxiety we have with this current El Nino as we are entering the end of 2010. The current pattern of weather is much like 1973 going into 1
