No matter how you wish to classify the winter season, getting to the end of February is good news for those of you sick of the season. The weather over these past three months has been rather eventful, but we have mostly avoided extremely cold conditions here in central Iowa. The featured chart presents the number of hours for Des Moines at or below a given wind chill value. This season's total is plotted along with a simple climatology. It is interesting that for thresholds above about -15 degrees, this winter has seen more hours at that threshold than on average. For thresholds below -15, we are well below average. The forecast for this week looks amazing with no chance of adding hours to this plot with highs well above freezing and lows not far from there.

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