IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 22 December 2014

Overcast at noon

Posted: 22 Dec 2014 05:45 AM

If your impression is that it has been exceptionally cloudy this month, you are very perceptive! The featured chart displays the monthly frequency of having overcast clouds reported by the Des Moines Airport weather station at noon. The red bars represent the long term average while the blue bars are the frequencies for this year. This analysis shows 76% of the days this month being overcast at noon while the average is 42%. For this metric, December is the most cloudy month of the year, but it should not be this cloudy!

Voting:
Good = 11
Bad = 3
Abstain = 2

Tags:   clouds