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Out the Back Window – 03-24-13

Today, we awoke to a fresh inch of snow here in east central Iowa. This needs to stop so we can proceed to spring.

We have one more week of March remaining. So far, it has been colder than normal for . The image below is for a NWS station 10 miles north of us. It shows the daily temperature ranges for each date as dark vertical bars. The green band across shows the normal range of highs and lows. Red and light blue are the extremes. Only once did we meet or exceed the normal high on March 14. Click on the image to see the actual daily measurements. Our normal high for March is 47˚. This year’s high has averaged 34˚. Last year averaged 62˚ for the high.

Please offer your observations about the weather this March in your area. Warmer? Colder? Drier? Wetter? About the same?  


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  1. wordsinthewind

    and it’s not expected to improve this year, multi-year droughts are not uncommon for us since we are after all in a natural desert. What’s different is we have more people than ever and that’s not working out so well. We’ve been much warmer than usual as well, we saw a few over 80 degree days this month. I don’t want to think about the summer because when they’re hot ‘n dry out here most people describe it as searing heat.  

  2. slksfca

    …than normal, though we’re supposed to get rain before the month ends.

    In fact it’s been a much drier season than normal. We got off to a very wet start last fall, but since then almost no precip at all.

    I remember one winter when it was far wetter than normal: 1999-2000, when it rained almost continuously from November to May. I thought that winter would never end.

    As for temperatures, I’d say we are well within the normal range because “normal” always includes at least a week or two of very warm early spring weather along with near-freezing temps, and sometimes both on the same day.

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