You may have remembered it like yesterday, but back on the 7th of July the three cities of Burlington, IA , Miami, FL, and Fairbanks, AK had a high temperature within two degrees of each other around 80 degrees. Fast forward a bit more than 4 months and a much different tale is to be told. While Fairbanks struggled to breach -30 degrees, Miami enjoyed a warm 85 and Burlington was stuck somewhere the middle around 40 degrees. This graph makes the directional choice for Iowans going on vacation in the winter easy.

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The high temperature on Sunday in Barrow, Alaska was a balmy 35 degrees whereas Des Moines, Iowa struggled in the 20s. The featured chart presents the daily frequency of occurrence for having Barrow with a warmer high temperature than Des Moines. Given that the chart presents 60 years of data, the chances are still rather slim for having such an occurrence. There have been 251 occurrences overall, so this happens about 4 times per year. The bottom chart presents the actual difference in high temperature on days that Barrow was warmer. The two lone events in September occurred back in 1995 (21 and 22). Temperatures on Monday will come close to accomplishing this rather rare feat with highs in both locations in the low 20s.

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