Automated Data Plotter
This application dynamically generates many types of graphs. These graphs are derived from processing of various data sources done by the IEM. Please feel free to use these generated graphics in whatever way you wish. Reset App. The IEM Explorer application offers a simplified frontend to some of these autoplots.
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Plot Description:
This chart presents a series of daily summary data as a calendar. The daily totals should be valid for the local day of the weather station. The climatology is based on the nearest NCEI 1991-2020 climate station, which in most cases is the same station. Climatology values are rounded to the nearest whole degree Fahrenheit and then compared against the observed value to compute a departure.Based on a sampling of recent timings for this application, plot generation time has averaged 2 seconds. Hold on for the plot is generating now!
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IEM Daily Features using this plot
The IEM Daily Features found on this website often utilize plots found on this application. Here is a listing of features referencing this plot type.
- 08 Nov 2024: Making Up For Dry Months
- 09 Aug 2024: Recent Blue Days
- 06 Jun 2024: Ames Daily Precipitation
- 02 Oct 2023: Large Departures
- 17 Oct 2022: Spencer Precipitation
- 07 Dec 2021: Recent Low Temp Departures
- 20 Sep 2021: Summer High Departures
- 12 Aug 2021: Quiet year for Skunk River at Ames
- 21 Sep 2020: One Wet Week
- 07 Jul 2020: Not Much since 1 June
- 30 Apr 2020: Windy April Days
- 09 Mar 2020: Yet Another Great Weekend
- 24 Feb 2020: Good Weekends this Month
- 11 Nov 2019: Just Four Days
- 19 Sep 2019: Warmest Departures all Summer
- 08 Apr 2019: A Rare Warm Weekend
- 24 Apr 2018: Estherville Struggle
- 18 Dec 2017: Dry Eight Weeks
- 17 Jul 2017: Lots of Goose Eggs
- 23 Nov 2016: Go Back Two Months
- 03 Oct 2016: Calm Weekend
- 25 Jul 2016: 5 days of 80 Dewpoints
- 25 Jan 2016: Finally, a warm Sunday
- 21 Dec 2015: Another 20+ Departure Day
- 05 Aug 2015: Highs since 1 June
- 06 Jul 2015: Dry Weekend
- 27 Feb 2011: Wild February
- 17 May 2010: Need a break from last week
- 12 Nov 2009: Fall Precipitation
- 30 Oct 2009: Rainy Thursdays
- 21 Jul 2009: Keep featuring temperatures
- 29 Jan 2009: Barely above while way below
- 04 Sep 2007: An August to Forget
- 29 May 2007: May rainfall
- 02 Apr 2007: Cold then warm March
- 31 Jan 2006: Finish the streak