The month of July 1936 is easily the warmest month on record for Des Moines. Records are meant to be broken and this July has certainly taken a run for its money at this record. The featured chart presents the daily high and low temperatures for this July and 1936. The running monthly average temperature is shown as well. This year (red line) actually started off warmer than 1936, but the 15 straight days above 100 in 1936 certainly set a high bar to exceed. So can this July break the record? The green dots represent a minimum scenario of having daily high temperatures at 98 and low temperature at 78. Such a scenario for each day for the rest of the month would nudge this year above 1936. It does appear unlikely this will happen, but 2012 will have a good chance of finishing the second warmest month on record.

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