Our warm and dry weather this year has not felt like recent years in Iowa. The featured image presents an academic exercise of matching our weather to another place's climatology. On a two week basis, which site in the country has the closest climatology to the temperatures in Des Moines. Or more simply, where does our weather most feel like? As the graphic shows, we have had quite the journey this year with trips to Hawaii, the west coast, Texas, and others! The two sites in blue were the only matches for locations to the east of Iowa. While not shown, this analysis was run for the previous wetter years of 2010 and 2008. Those years had many more matches for locations to our east. Our climate this year has been more like a semi-arid one, than a humid continental.

Voting:
Good = 18
Bad = 5