The forecast this week is rather remarkable with a number of chances to reach the 80s! The featured chart looks at the hourly temperature distributions on dates where the high temperature was at least 80 degrees for Des Moines. The distributions are presented as violin charts with increasing width of the violin representation an increasing frequency at the given temperature. The extrema are shown for each hour by the end red ticks and the mean as well. It is rather clear that days with such warm temperatures have very mild overnight temperatures as well. Very few events are shown with lows dipping into the 30s with most of the events showing lows in the 50s. Warm overnight temperatures will certainly help soil temperatures continue their rapid warming this week and make for a very enticing period for farmers to get an early jump on planting.

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