Tuesday was yet another spectacular day in Iowa with a warm breeze pushing high temperatures into the 80s for some. It also made the third day in a row that high temperatures were 40+ degrees warmer than the morning low temperature. The featured chart looks at the longest streak of having daily warmups over 40 degrees by month for Ames. Getting a streak of these days looks rare in deed, the October record of 4 looks hard to break today as low temperatures this morning are around 50 instead of in the 30s.

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The featured chart shows the frequency of a certain 10 day period of a month being the warmest of that month. Rewording, which 10 day period of a month is usually the warmest. This is based on observations from Ames since 1893. For example, for October the first 10 days are the warmest for roughly 70% of the years. This will appear to be the case for us this year. This chart also shows interesting asymmetry during the spring and fall months.

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