The featured table presents hourly temperature reports from Cedar Rapids last Friday with the date of having as cold a temperature at that hour between the dates of 21 May and 30 June. The afternoon temperatures were the coldest on record for that period with data back to the early 1970s. This plot is a pick of cherry picking as there was a cold May 20th not too many years ago, but still having temperatures in the 40s during the afternoon hours during late May is rather extreme. The forecast thankfully has warmer temperatures in store, but for the dry half of the state, not much in the way of precipitation. We finish off May today and have experienced a remarkable start to the growing season.

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