So far this fall season, we have avoided very cold temperatures. For Des Moines, the to date minimum has only been 36 degrees. The featured chart displays the fall to date minimum temperature this year along with a climatology of this metric. 36 was also the to date minimum last year for this date. The range of values shows that only a few events have been warmer to date and that value is only 37. If the current minimum of 36 holds until 7 November, it would be the warmest minimum temperature this far into the fall season. A caveat for the Des Moines Airport site, is that there is a clear urban heat island effect there and so its temperatures are often warmer than surrounding areas.

Update: The low this Friday morning dipped to 34, so the 36 mentioned aboved has already been breached.

Voting:
Good = 22
Bad = 23
Abstain = 5

Tags:   fall