The featured chart is an attempt to show automated cloud reports from the Des Moines Airport ASOS. These cloud reports include up to four levels of cloud coverage. Once the automated sensor reaches a cloud deck that it considers to be overcast, no further reports are possible above that layer. The past week has seen plenty of clouds with ceilings below five thousand feet. You can now generate this plot on the website for other sites the IEM collects data for and for previous months in the archive.

Voting:
Good = 12
Bad = 6
Abstain = 4

Tags:   clouds