38 today? Get your thermometer out of the sun.

Thought it wouldn’t as well IMBY but it got to 50 for a bit today.

Third ridge gets squashed by energy that breaks off Kamchatka and pushed everything slightly east

If you look closely, you can see what looks like precipitation coming from the NW. If you look at my map, you can see the low forming close to the end of the run.

Thanks guys. I rememeber the cold on the models couple weeks ago for IOWA which for here simply never materialized and for Iowa this can barely be called a cold stretch. Only slightly below avg. In fact seems to me the early december cold lasted and was much colder compared to avg than now. And here in Iowa this in no way compares to Feb 2021 both for duration and depth below average. Today my high was 38F. There has been very little wind which here makes it seem warm! I guess Im acustomed to below zero in January here now! And plenty of wind!