Our epic stretch of warm weather continues to rewrite the record books for March. A couple places in the MidWest have experienced something truly exceptional. The low temperature for the day was warmer than the previous record high temperature for the day! The featured chart shows this happening for Rochester, Minnesota on Sunday. The low temperature was 61 and the previous record high for the date was 60! This is an extremely rare event to occur and checking back through the archives of data the IEM has for Iowa, this hasn't happened in Iowa since 26 Dec 1936 (keep in mind that this feat was easier to achieve with fewer years of climatology in 1936).

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