Monday was yet another scorcher in Iowa with high temperatures near or above 100 degrees. Des Moines hit 105, which set a new daily record. The featured illegible table shows the hourly temperature reports for Des Moines on Monday and the last date in the observational record with a temperature as warm as that for the site. For example, the 102 at 1 PM was the warmest 1 PM temperature since 14 July 1936! Temperatures this Tuesday morning are starting off very warm again, so we may challenge these values today and again tomorrow. The good news is that cooler weather is expected after Wednesday along with some chances of rain.

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