Sunday was a wild weather day in Iowa with chinook winds pushing temperatures well above freezing for much of the state during the afternoon hours, while the rest suffered blizzard conditions. The Arctic Front eventually dropped south and put the entire state back in the deep freeze with strong winds. For Des Moines, the high temperature of 49 was well above average while the low temperature of 4 occurred around midnight and was below average. The featured chart presents the frequency of daily high and low temperature departures. Sunday's value is denoted with a 'x' on the chart. The highest frequencies on the chart do not occur at the origin (0 and 0), which is why many prefer to talk about average temperatures and not normal temperatures as the most frequent temperature are not at the mean value!

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