The weather has been nearly perfect this week for most of Iowa with warmer air temperatures and sunshine helping to warm and dry soils allowing for spring planting to commence. The featured chart displays the daily range of four inch depth soil temperatures near Kanawha (north-central Iowa). The chart nicely depicts the story of this April. The days with no change in temperature at about 32F are those with snow cover! Once the snow cover goes away, the soil temperatures start to show life. The data for this site would indicate it only took about three days after the snow cover left for soil temperatures to exceed the magical 50 degree threshold.

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