After a record cold start in some locations on Sunday, afternoon temperatures only warmed to around 50 degrees. The featured chart plots the daily high versus low temperature reported at the Ames COOP site on the 17th's of May since 1893. The red dot is the observation for 2009. The guidelines were manually added to show how the observations fit into somewhat predictable ranges. Warmer weather is in store this week with highs in the 70s and lows in the 40s and 50s.

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