Thursday, September 15, 2011

Fall Freeze: Many locations have already reached 32° this season

The Midwestern Regional Climate Center has put together a regional plot of the reporting stations that have recorded 32° so far this season.  Each colored dot represents a certain time period.  Notice how a lot of the stations have reported reaching 32° just within in this week across Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota - probably just within the past couple nights.  There is even on spot in far southern Lee County.  The black dots are where low temperatures have yet to reach the freezing mark.  Temperatures tonight could fall back into the middle and upper 30s, especially if the cloud cover doesn't get too thick overnight.

2 comments:

  1. That's really interesting. When is the "average" first freeze for the Rockford area?

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  2. FirstWarn Weather TeamSeptember 16, 2011 at 9:26 AM

    On average, using the new 1981-2010 climate data, the first freeze is usually around the first week of October.

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