IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 04 October 2019

Avoided frost today

Posted: 04 Oct 2019 08:22 AM

The featured map presents an analysis of minimum temperature this morning based on hourly NCEP Real Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA). Of course, the actual minimum temperature was likely slightly lower than what is plotted here due to only having data samples every 60 minutes for this analysis. The point of the map is that we avoided frost this morning after some concern of having such cold temperatures. The first two weeks of October are typically when freezing temperatures first occur for the fall season for the state.

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