Temperatures warmed nicely again on Thursday with about half of the state reaching 80+°F for high temperatures. Sometimes it is difficult to contextualize how anomalously warm a temperature is during a month that should feel more like fall than summer. So the featured chart makes an attempt at this by comparing daily high temperatures during July and October for Ames. The left panel is a q-q (quantile) plot which matches temperatures by their observed frequencies. So a 80°F high temperature during October is comparable in occurrence frequency to a high of 95°F during July. The right hand plot presents histograms of each month's temperature distribution. There is a surprising amount of overlap between the two, but obviously October has most of its distribution below the July minimum value. The right hand table lists out the percentile values for each month and the difference between the two.

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