For Ames, July ended up on the cool side of average for temperature. The featured chart presents the combination of August vs July average temperature for each year since 1893. A number of extreme years are labelled. While some recent feature plots have shown this year trending like 1947, the near term forecast does not indicate this August will be as warm as that. We could certainly use rain more than anything right now.

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