IEM Daily Feature
Wednesday, 17 July 2019

95 Degree Days

Posted: 17 Jul 2019 05:35 AM

The hottest weather of the season is forecast over the next few days with high temperatures expected well into the 90s. The featured chart presents the number of days each year that the high temperature was at or above 95 degrees for Ames. The highlighted line is a trailing 30 year moving average and shows the general downtrend of these days which is typical of most stations in Iowa. For the recent few decades, it is more common for the temperature to not reach that level than to. We shall see how the next few days pan out.

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