I started posting IEM Daily Feature's back in early 2002 as a means to get people to visit the website daily and also highlight plots that show interesting weather and climate data. Today's feature is the 2,500th one in the series, so the presented plot looks at the time of day this feature message is posted each day. The plot illustrates the process of aging for human males with activities starting earlier in the morning with the passing years. If the trend continues, I'll be posting daily features at 3 AM in the year 2022! Hehe.

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It was just over eight year ago that the first IEM Daily Feature was posted. The purpose of the feature was to post something interesting and relevant to Iowa's current weather and climate. The early years of the daily feature were mostly lame, but after I added a voting option the feature quality improved due to personal pride of not having a poorly rated feature. Today is the 2,000th feature post and the featured image contains a 6x6 pixel square from each feature to illustrate nothing in particular :) Anyway, I am glad folks seem to still enjoy my daily ramblings and I try to make each worth your time to read. Cheers and here is to the next 2,000 features!

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It is a very special day today, yup, Happy 1500th daily feature! The IEM daily feature started just over 6 years ago and has been entertaining and informing (note the order) the public most every day. The featured image is a montage of individual 6x6 pixels from each daily feature image. You can see how much I love White in the image.

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Today is a great day! Today is the celebration of the IEM's 1,000th feature! After 4 years of features, we continue to come up with something interesting and, most importantly, an unique feature title most every day. Since we live in a democracy, you got a chance to vote on the daily feature starting in 2005. It is no coincidence that the highest rated feature is the only one with my picture in it. The irony of the text in that feature was that the camera was nearly hit by a weak tornado in September 2005. Some of my favorite features include: MCC, MCS, MCV equals MESS, A pile of data!, Tornado or Not Tornado?, Insurance Policy, and Hot, Hot, Hot. Care to share yours?

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Today is the third anniversary of the IEM Feature. Back in 2002 the daily feature was added as a way to keep people updated with what is going on with the IEM. We have posted 739 features since then and are flattered that so many people enjoy reading it each day. It looks like Mother Nature wishes to commemorate the anniversary with near record warmth today! Temperatures may be even warmer than some of those cold days back in August 2004.

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Can you guess how many observations the IEM databases hold? ... The answer is over 350 million! Most of these observations are available for download. Check out the download pages for the ASOS, RWIS, AWOS, ISU AG, SchoolNet, and COOP networks.

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Since the weather is so boring right now, we will be highlighting various IEM web applications in the coming days. Today's app is the dynamic RWIS pavement temperature plotter. These plots illustrate a wide variety of physical processes that occur in pavement.

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Today the IEM announces its 'GIS Ready!' initiative. Look for this icon to appear with links to GIS ready data. Also check out notes and presentation from the upcoming AMS annual meeting.

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With the help of KCCI in Des Moines, the IEM is proud to announce the addition of KCCI's School Net data. We are pursuing data from other TV networks as well.
Shown above is a partial network plot valid this morning.

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