IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 21 September 2010

30 degree jumps

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:59 AM

After having high temperatures in the 50s on Sunday, warm air rushed the state on Monday pushing highs well into the 80s. For some places like Ames, the jump in high temperature was over 30 degrees in just one day! The featured chart presents the largest one day high temperature rise and drop along with the number of occurences of a 30+ degree change based on data for Ames. You can see in the summertime that these large of changes do not occur and are rare for September.

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