The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center has released its three-month outlook for the United States. Will it be hot this summer in Iowa? Or will it be a cool summer? The answer is: Maybe.
The NWS CPC says:
Increased chances for above-normal temperatures this summer exist nationwide with the exception of parts of the Mississippi Valley...
We haven't had temperatures above zero in Waterloo since last Thursday (2/11) when it was a toasty 1*. Sigh.
But 100 years ago today, February 15, 1921, it was an all-time record-high temperature for February in Waterloo. It was 71*. It was a record-high 75* in Des Moines that day...