For Des Moines, the high temperature on Wednesday barely breached freezing. On the same day last year, the high temperature was in the 70s! The featured chart presents the difference in high temperature each day this year from last. An even larger difference appears on the 31rst where the high was only 15 this year and 61 last year! March 2012 experienced epic warmth, so more very large differences should be expected.

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