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Iowa Environmental Mesonet Daily Bulletin
Data valid for 12 April 2007
> News
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> Yesterday's Daily Feature
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http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/onsite/features/cat.php?day=2007-04-12
| Title : April snow common?
| Date : 12 Apr 07:13 AM
| Votes : Good: 27 Bad: 6
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Is seeing a snowfall on 11 April common? The featured chart for today attempts to address this question by plotting daily frequencies of snowfall occurances for years since 1951. You can see that the snowiest time of year is roughly the last week of January. The value for April 11th is around 15% which means roughly 1 out of every 7 years there is snowfall somewhere in the state. Overall for April, 53 of the previous 57 years have had snowfall in April so yesterday is not that irregular.
> NWS Watch/Warning Summary
*** Products issued on 12 Apr 2007
Summary +_________ By WFO ____________+ Watches
Type US IA | ARX DVN DMX OAX FSD | US
Tornado 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 0 | 1
Svr Tstorm 32 0 | 0 0 0 0 0 | 2
Fl Flood 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 0 | N/A
ARX = LaCrosse, WI DVN = Davenport, IA DMX = Des Moines, IA
OAX = Omaha, NE FSD = Sioux Falls, SD
> Network Metrics
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Iowa ASOS Reporting Stations: 15 Obs Received: 462
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High Air Temp[F] : 44.60 [04:52 PM] SUX SIOUX CITY
: 44.60 [06:53 PM] BRL BURLINGTON
: 44.60 [05:54 PM] DSM DES MOINES
Low Air Temp[F] : 21.92 [05:53 AM] SPW SPENCER
High Dew Point[F] : 32.00 [03:53 PM] SPW SPENCER
: 32.00 [03:46 PM] MIW MARSHALLTOWN
: 32.00 [11:53 AM] OTM OTTUMWA
Low Dew Point[F] : 17.96 [06:53 AM] SPW SPENCER
Peak Gust[knots] : 27.00 [12:52 PM] IOW IOWA CITY
Max Rainfall [inch] : 0.03 [ ] DVN QUAD CITIES
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Iowa AWOS Reporting Stations: 40 Obs Received: 6860
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High Air Temp[F] : 49.00 [04:10 PM] RDK RED OAK
Low Air Temp[F] : 25.00 [06:40 AM] SHL SHELDON
High Dew Point[F] : 37.00 [10:20 PM] RDK RED OAK
Low Dew Point[F] : 19.40 [06:55 AM] SHL SHELDON
Peak Gust[knots] : 29.00 [10:30 AM] EOK KEOKUK MUNI
Max Rainfall [inch] : 0.02 [ ] FFL FAIRFIELD
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Iowa RWIS Reporting Stations: 56 Obs Received: 7434
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High Air Temp[F] : 47.60 [03:35 PM] RCBI4 Council Bluffs (I-80)
Low Air Temp[F] : 23.50 [06:45 AM] RSPI4 Spencer (US 18)
High Dew Point[F] : 39.40 [01:18 PM] RONI4 Onawa (I-29)
Low Dew Point[F] : 16.90 [04:39 PM] RMCI4 Mason City (I-35)
Peak Gust[knots] : 28.00 [01:53 AM] RSBI4 Steamboat Rock (US20)
: 28.00 [10:41 AM] RDAI4 Adair (I-80)
: 28.00 [02:47 PM] RDWI4 De Witt (US 30/US 61)
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KCCI SchoolNet Reporting Stations: 66 Obs Received: 90789
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High Air Temp[F] : 47.00 [04:13 PM] SMUI4 Murray
: 47.00 [06:19 PM] SBMI4 Bloomfield
Low Air Temp[F] : 1.00 [01:36 AM] SIFI4 Iowa Falls
High Dew Point[F] : 45.00 [04:19 PM] SKCI4 KCCI Studios
Low Dew Point[F] : 0.00 [06:02 PM] SMAI4 Marshalltown
: 0.00 [01:36 AM] SIFI4 Iowa Falls
Peak Gust[knots] : 27.81 [12:22 AM] STQI4 Tama
Max Rainfall [inch] : 0.27 [ ] SJEI4 Jefferson
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KIMT SchoolNet Reporting Stations: 21 Obs Received: 24514
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High Air Temp[F] : 44.00 [05:03 PM] SFMM5 Rochester (Friedell)
Low Air Temp[F] : 25.00 [02:40 AM] SLEM5 LeRoy
: 25.00 [04:26 AM] SCQI4 Cresco
: 25.00 [02:13 AM] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
: 1 Other Duplicates Skipped
High Dew Point[F] : 40.00 [02:45 PM] SNKI4 Northwood
Low Dew Point[F] : 21.00 [02:23 PM] SJAM5 Rochester (John Adams)
: 21.00 [04:34 AM] SCCI4 Charles City
Peak Gust[knots] : 26.00 [11:48 AM] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
Max Rainfall [inch] : 0.38 [ ] SGMM5 Grand Meadow
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KELO WeatherNet Reporting Stations: 44 Obs Received: 27453
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High Air Temp[F] : 48.00 [04:54 PM] SMSS2 Mission
Low Air Temp[F] : 16.00 [07:10 AM] SMAM5 Madison
High Dew Point[F] : 43.00 [02:57 PM] WHSS2 Winner
Low Dew Point[F] : -39.00 [11:53 PM] SWTS2 Watertown
: -39.00 [07:36 AM] SMAM5 Madison
Peak Gust[knots] : 33.02 [12:06 AM] SRAS2 Rapid City
Max Rainfall [inch] : 0.43 [ ] SRUM5 Russell
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Iowa NWS COOP Reporting Stations: 91 Obs Received: 110
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High Air Temp[F] : 58.00 [ ] MTAI4 Mount Ayr
Low Air Temp[F] : 20.00 [ ] SNBI4 SANBORN
: 20.00 [ ] VICI4 Vicks Corner _ Spirit Lake
Max Rainfall [inch] : 0.12 [ ] SPTI4 STRAWBERRY POINT
Max Snowfall [inch] : 0.00 [ ] LSGI4 LANSING 4 SE
: 0.00 [ ] MSTI4 MUSCATINE 2 N
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Misc Stations Reporting Stations: 5 Obs Received: 1969
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High Air Temp[F] : 44.00 [09:48 AM] RAWDES Desoto
Low Air Temp[F] : 27.90 [05:05 AM] OT0006 NE Ames
High Dew Point[F] : 37.00 [09:48 AM] RAWDES Desoto
Low Dew Point[F] : 24.00 [01:03 AM] OT0006 NE Ames
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