IEM Daily Feature
Sunday, 18 March 2012

Breaking record by a month

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 12:06 PM

Our epic stretch of March warm continues with temperatures expected to approach 80 degrees again today. Des Moines has hit 80 degrees each of the past four days making for the earliest streak of such warm weather. It was not only the earliest streak, but bested the previous record by a month! The featured chart presents the earliest four day streak of a given temperature threshold for Des Moines. The green line was the record prior to this year. The previous record for 80+ degree days was in mid April!

Voting:
Good = 21
Bad = 8

Tags:   highs   mar12