The featured chart displays the temperature range between the warmest high and coldest low for October for Ames. The bar to date is highlighted in red for this year. Of course, there is plenty of days left in October and the chart would indicate that there is plenty of room to the downside for lower temperatures yet this month. In fact, the average coldest low is 23 degrees which is a far cry from the current low of 45. The forecast for this week does have much colder weather predicted with our best chance to date of a freeze arriving by the end of the week.

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