While some brief and very cold weather this fall cast some doubt on if 2012 would finish the warmest year on record for Des Moines, our recent stretch of very warm December weather has closed the deal. The featured chart presents our current year to date average temperature along with the current record of 1931. Each of the spaghetti lines represent a previous year's data projected onto the end of this year. All of the previous years now yield a 2012 ahead of 1931, so it is a lead pipe lock to win! Of course, we could loose if we tied record cold high and low temperatures each day (green line) until the end of the year! The bottom chart represents the scenario probability to date showing that we finally hit 100%!

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