The featured chart displays the 1 May to date accumulation of growing degree days for Ames. The top panel displays the actual accumulation this year and the climatology. The bottom panel displays the accumulated departure from average. The last few weeks have seen about average temperatures, so our accumulated departure has not made up any lost ground. This is a difficult time of year to make up GDD departures as our daily average accumulation is already a high value, so even with record temperatures we can not make up too much ground quickly.

Voting:
Good = 8
Bad = 2
Abstain = 4