After a chilly and wet end to the fall season, temperatures this winter haven't been too cold so far. The featured chart looks at the minimum wind chill temperature for December for Des Moines based on available hourly reports of air temperature and wind speed. This past December's value comes in above the 95th percentile and is one of the warmer values on record since the mid 1930s. After some mild air this week, there are signs in the forecast models that more winter like conditions will arrive next week.

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