IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 14 August 2009

The Summer of '09

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 06:07 AM

The featured graph is the daily departure from average of Growing Degree Days (base=86) for Dubuque. A positive value means that the day accumulated more GDDs than what would be expected for that date. The number of and size of negative numbers on this graph is impressive. The only really warm stretch in mid June might be what saved the agricultural crops this year.

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