IEM Daily Feature
Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Plenty of Clouds

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 05:34 AM

Tuesday was yet another day in the stretch of cloudy, foggy, freezing drizzle, and light snow days this January. The featured chart looks the cloudiness aspect of this month with the percentage of days that had overcast conditions reported at noon for Des Moines. The total this month is shown against a simple long term average on the top panel with the bottom panel comparing each of the Januaries on record. The percentage this year is well above average, but still a bit behind that of just three years back in 2017. With the forecast of three more cloudy days to go, we may come close to beating that total.

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