IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 15 December 2008

Strong cold front

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:14 AM


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Note the stair step nature of the temperature plot is due to the 1 degree precision of observations
A very intense cold front crossed the state on Sunday dropping our temperatures from the 40s and 50s almost immediately to values below freezing. The featured graph is a timeseries from the Corning SchoolNet site with observations shown every 6 seconds for a period of only 15 minutes! The rapid wind shift and initial temperature drop take place within a minute. Temperatures continued dropping for the rest of the day on Sunday and now are below zero for many locations in Iowa.

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