The featured plot of recent high and low temperatures from Waterloo shows how last week's cold snap was exceptional as compared with the rest of the month and climatology. The forecast looks warmer for the rest of this work week before another cool down is expected for the weekend.

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The featured time series from the Esterville Airport shows a period of 87 hours were the temperature never exceeded 0 degree F. Thankfully temperatures have been near freezing these past few days allowing some melting to occur. We will have a few more chances to get above freezing this week before more winter storms are expected to return next week.

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Just another amazingly cold morning with low temperatures in the -40 to -20 degree range in Eastern Iowa. The featured plot of AWOS low temperatures shows a -38 in Monticello! Not shown, Waterloo tied its all-time record low temperature of -34. Temperatures are expected to warm up today and be near freezing this weekend, that is a 50 some degree warm up!

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A brutally cold air mass is currently entrenched over the Upper MidWest with low temperatures this morning in the minus teens and twenties across Iowa. The featured analysis shows negative numbers over much of the area. The big question today is if we will warm to above zero!

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The featured map is an analysis of minimum wind chill value on Sunday. Very cold air rushed into the state this past weekend thanks to strong northwest wind that gusted upwards of 40 miles per hour. A good portion of the state experienced wind chill values below -30°F. Winds have finally backed off some with slightly warmer weather expected before our next winter storm on Tuesday. Remember that today is only the 2nd day of winter!

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