The featured chart presents yearly timeseries of four inch depth soil temperatures from the ISU AgClimate (now ISU Soil Moisture) station at the AEA Ames AgFarm. The black line represents the simple average of all the yearly lines. As with air temperatures, soil temperatures have been on the warm side of average recently. Slightly cooler weather is in the forecast this week before a well advertised shot of arctic air arrives next week.

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