IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 08 September 2011

Cool days and clear skies

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:50 AM

The weather these past few days has been remarkable for cool high temperatures along with mostly clear skies overhead. The featured chart attempts to look at the relationship of having cool days along with mostly clear skies or northerly winds. While the determination of these two criteria was somewhat arbitrary, the signal appears to be reasonable. Having northerly winds is common for these cool days, but least important during the summer time when the air to our north may not be that cold. Clear skies are the least common during May and June, when are surface heating rates are the largest.

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Tags:   climate   clouds   highs