IEM Daily Feature
Wednesday, 03 June 2015
Wednesday, 03 June 2015
Temperature Distributions
Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:45 AM
The featured chart displays the high and low temperature distributions for 2 June from long
term reporting sites in Iowa. The actual reports on Tuesday were about in the middle of the
long term distributions. It is interesting to compare the shapes of the two curves. The low
temperature distribution is narrower due to the different processes that govern the daily low
temperature versus the high. The low temperature is typically a function of overnight
clouds, soil temperatures, and humidity levels, while the high temperature is related to
amount of sunshine and air mass transport.
Voting:
Good = 11
Bad = 6
Abstain = 9
Voting:
Good = 11
Bad = 6
Abstain = 9