A winter like chill showed up on Tuesday with low temperatures dipping way below freezing and high temperatures struggling well below average for mid October. The featured chart presents the season to date climatology of minimum temperature for Des Moines. The blue line shows the 2022 values with the crash down to 21 yesterday representing one of the coldest temperatures this early on record for the site. While temperatures are again cold this Wednesday morning, the record values are even much colder still in the mid teens. Take heart, much warmer temperatures are only a day away with highs back in the 60s for Thursday and well into the 70s for a few days following that.

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