Ideal cooling conditions on Monday morning allowed low temperatures to reach the 40s for some locations in the state. These were record lows for places like Waterloo and Mason City. The featured map is a simple analysis of low temperatures reported on Monday. Having temperatures in the 40s for the first week of August is a somewhat rare occurrence. It had not happened in Iowa since 2009.

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