Seasonally mild temperatures have been a struggle recently with numerous hours having below zero Fahrenheit values. In fact, many locations in the state recently completed a significant stretch of consecutive hours below zero. The featured chart shows the streak for the Des Moines Airport, whose streak of 2 days and 18 hours finished in the top ten longest since 1936 based on unofficial hourly archives maintained by the IEM.

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