One of the reasons why the drought of 2023 was not more damaging to crops was that July 2023 was not all that hot, which reduced water stress. Interestingly, July 2024 has again not been all that hot and while drought is presently not a concern, the lack of excessive heat is again very positive to crops. The forecast does have a few hot days coming up, but then a cool down expected by mid week. The featured chart looks into which days of the month have the warmest high or low temperature for Ames. There really isn't a preferred time of the month as July contains the climatological warmest average temperatures of the year within the middle of the month, so there is no directional preference from the start of the month to the end.

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