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58 Degrees Warmer
Posted: 24 Feb 2025 05:30 AM, Views: 489
The warmer weather this past weekend was a welcome respite from the recent stretch of cold winter weather. Des Moines went from a temperature of -4°F at 7 AM on Friday to 54°F at 3 PM on Sunday, which made for a 58 degree warm-up over a 56 hour period of time. The featured chart presents the largest such warm-ups during the winter months for Des Moines. This is computed based on available hourly temperature reports and over an exact 56 hour period of time. The autoplot tool that generated the chart has a number of more knobs to generate this statistic in other ways. Anyway, for this pigeon-holed period, this past weekend's warm-up ranks 8th warmest. The warm weather looks to persist this week, so we need not worry about a reversal drop of the same magnitude within the immediate future.
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