IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
80 degrees in 12 hours
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 06:15 AM
The cold front passage on Sunday was one for the record books due to the drastic and rapid change in temperature. Today's featured plot is a time series from Ottumwa showing an amazing drop of 80 degrees in 12 hours. Note this is a drop from an air temperature of 60 to a wind chill value of -20. The actual air temperature drop was around 60 degrees in just 12 hours! Some analysis is currently being done to compare this drop to others in the past, stay tuned.
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Tags: coldfront extreme
Voting:
Good = 33
Bad = 16
Tags: coldfront extreme