 That makes seven out of the last nine months where we've had above normal or really close to normal rainfall. While northwest Iowa has been consistently wetter than the west of the state for nearly a year, Hulse's floodwaters were pushed over the edge by the late June rain event that led several areas in the region to see two or three times the average rainfall. Hulse's places like Lake Park and Spirit Lake saw the wettest June on record. There was a report at