Our recent stretch of January weather has seen very pleasant temperatures for most of Iowa. Some consider winter as a constantly frozen and harsh time in the midwest and it is certainly like that at times, but the featured map shows that on average, high temperatures are often above freezing for the period of December to February. A considerable gradient exists in the midwest with frequencies dropping by about ten percentage points for every climate district you travel north. The forecast has a return to daily highs below freezing and some chances of snow.

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