IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 12 December 2024

Estherville below 0°F

Posted: 12 Dec 2024 05:30 AM

The coldest air of the season settled into Iowa overnight with a number of locations dropping below 0°F for the first time in a long while. The featured chart presents hourly temperatures from Estherville (Northwestern Iowa) this year. At 10 PM, the temperature dropped below zero for the first time since 21 January. This stretch of approximately 326 days at or above zero was the second longest on record for the airport weather station, with data dating back to 1987. The longest stretch was 335 days back in 1999 between 14 January and 16 December.

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