The featured chart is the yearly maximum stretch of days where the high temperature was 80+ °F for Ames. So far this year, we have seen a stretch of 13 days while all of 2008 only experienced an 11 day period. In general, the longest stretches were prior to the 1960s with 1936 having a 70 day period! Our forecast has highs in the 80s, but barely 80 for the weekend.

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