DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- The summer of 2010 was a rainy one for Iowa, but the summer of 1993 remains Iowa's wettest on record.
Summer 1993 saw a statewide average of 26.83 inches of rain.
State climatologist Harry Hillaker of the Iowa Department of Agriculture says rainfall this summer averaged 23.23 inches. That covers the months of June, July and August.
Third place goes to the summer of 1902 with 22.57 inches.
But June 2010 is the wettest June on record with a statewide average of 10.38 inches. It beat June 1947, which had 10.33 inches.
Hillaker tells The Des Moines Register that rainfall was unevenly distributed during August. Urbandale had more than 16 inches of rain for the month while Guttenberg got just over an inch of rain last month.
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