A bit of sunshine and a slightly warmer Sunday afternoon saved what otherwise was a miserable weekend of bitter mid March cold temperatures. Strong winds combined with the cold temperatures to produce extremely low wind chill values for mid March. The featured map presents the most recent date with as cold a wind chill temperature as was experienced since Friday. This is based on automated hourly reports from the Iowa airport weather stations and sites shown in tan indicate no comparable readings over the period of record for the site. So this was generational cold wind chill temperatures for this late into March with a number of sites having to go back to 24 March 1974 to find as cold a reading. Thankfully some moderation in temperature will happen this week, but it certainly could be warmer this time of year!

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