The precipitation that fell from the sky Thursday evening mostly came in the form of rain, making for the first rain event for the state in quite some time. Temperatures fortunately warmed as well to limit significant impacts from icing and kept the accumulating snow that did fall, to a minimum. The featured chart presents a climatology based on hourly Ames airport weather station data showing the temperature at which measurable precipitation was reported. A weekly weighted average line is plotted as well along with a 32 degree baseline temperature. About the third week of February is when we start to see above freezing precipitation events increase in frequency. Of course, there is still plenty of time for big snowfalls, but we are trending in the right direction now for those sick of full scale winter!

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