IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Ending up where we started

Posted: 30 Jul 2013 04:25 AM

The featured chart presents a time series of trailing 14 day departures of temperature and precipitation for Iowa. The line connects this metric computed every seven days and the points are labelled for the end of the 14 day period. The start of the line is on the first of April and the line ends with today. The chart shows that our past two weeks closely resemble the two weeks ending on 1 April with cool and dry weather. These types of plots often create loops when the variables are correlated. Our next period of weather looks to continue the dry weather, but closer to average temperatures are expected.

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