After a muggy Sunday and Monday, the rest of this week has been a mid summer treat with sunshine, a breeze, below average temperatures, and very low humidity values. To illustrate the low humidity, the featured chart presents some July dew point metrics based on period of record data for the Ames airport. The bottom left panel is the most relevant as it presents hourly dew point percentiles for this month. The side panel to it shows a ten percentage point binned frequency. Much of this month has been spent below the 50th percentile and the days since Monday have been below the 10th percentile! Humidity levels will be on the increase along with chances of rain again, but a return of significant heat does not seem likely for the next week or so.

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