IEM Daily Feature
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Comparing Climo
Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:33 AM
High temperatures on Tuesday are expected to be seasonable again with most of the state
in the 50s. Southwestern Iowa will be closer to 60 degrees while northeastern Iowa will be
closer to 50 degrees. Such differences are about average for this time of the year as
shown by the featured plot comparing daily climatology between Shenandoah (SW Iowa)
and Decorah (NE Iowa). The bottom panel directly compares the two and shows the
largest differences in average high temperature occur during the late winter into early
spring season. Such differences are contributed to by snow cover differences and the
relative location to warmer air masses to our south and west as well as down-sloping that
warms air off the Rocky Mountains.
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Voting:
Good = 7
Bad = 0