It is time to say goodbye to 2004. For Iowa, this year will be remembered as a wild year for severe weather, a relatively cold summer that still produced a bumper crop of corn and soybeans, and a primary that ended Howard Dean's campaign. For the IEM, 2004 was another year for archiving and disseminating Iowa's weather and climate. Some stats about the IEM for 2004:

• 216 News items posted.
• 245 Daily Features written.
• 17.6 million AWOS obs archived.
• 39.6 million SchoolNet obs archived.
• 16 gigabytes of webcam imagery archived.
• 70 gigabytes of NEXRAD data archived.
• 1.7 terabytes of traffic and 32 million hits by the IEM webserver.

Thanks for your support this year and hopefully many years to come!

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Tags:   2004