IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 09 October 2015

First and Last 80

Posted: 09 Oct 2015 05:37 AM

The forecast for this weekend calls for very warm temperatures on Sunday with highs expected above 80 degrees. The featured chart displays the first and last day each year above 80 for Ames. A trend line is fit to both values. The slope for both fit lines is negative, indicating that both of these dates are occurring earlier in the year but the correlations are not strong.

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