Dry Rain

A weak rain shaft protrudes from the bottom of a cumulus cloud in the east sky as seen from Archer Drive at the new Bowman Meadows housing development just south of Boyson Road in Marion, Iowa around 8:24 PM, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. The extended dry conditions over most of the state of Iowa precluded this meager attempt of rainfall from ever reaching the ground. Weather system patterns this year continue to form in the western part of the state only to peter out before reaching the east due to a lack of sustaining moisture.