The featured chart presents the average weather during the week of RAGBRAI as approximated by the weather reported at the Des Moines Airport. RAGBRAI is an annual bike trip from west to east across Iowa. There were a few warm days this year, but not as bad as it has recently been a few years ago as shown by the top panel with average heat index during the daylight hours displayed. The bottom panel shows the average east - west wind speed as an approximation to the amount of head or tail wind bikers would have experienced. Either this week or two weeks ago would have been much cooler than the previous week, but too late now to move the ride!

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