IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Small Uptick in Dew Point

Posted: 24 Jul 2018 05:34 AM

The very pleasant mid summer weather continued in Iowa on Monday, but while high temperatures were again in the lower 80s, there was a small and discernible uptick in dew point temperature. The featured chart displays a meteogram from the Ames Airport showing various weather observations over the past three days. Of note here is the green line within the top panel showing the small increase in dew point yesterday from the lower 60s to mid 60s. Some drier air is attempting to work into the state, but peak transpiration crops will work to moisten the lower layer of the atmosphere back up.

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