Numerous places over the eastern half of the country set records again on Tuesday as the epic warmth of March rolls on. The temperature was cool enough to not set another record high temperature for Des Moines and so ending the streak of six straight days with a record high. The featured chart attempts to show the daily record high temperatures for Des Moines and the year during which they were sequentially set. Of course, the first year on record shows up for each date with later years slowly building over top them. The records for this year are shown in bright red. The numerous warm days in the year 1910 show up prominently, which may be the only competition for this year to be the warmest March on record. The numeric value shown on the top of each bar indicates the number of times the daily record has been set. Kind of interesting to note the most frequent days with records set having occurred in the recent period as well, which was probably helped by an initially cold period for the first year on record.

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