IOWA. WEATHER AND CROP REPORT 



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COMPARATIVE DATA FOR THE STATE— OCTOBER. 



1893 



1895. 

 1896. 

 1897. 

 1898. 



190U. 

 1901. 

 1902. 

 1903. 

 1904. 

 19J5. 

 1906. 

 1907. 

 1908. 

 1909. 

 1910. 

 Wll. 

 1912. 

 1913. 

 1914. 

 1915. 

 1916. 

 1917. 

 1918. 

 1919. 

 1920. 

 1921. 

 1922- 



T. indicates an amount too small to measure, or leas than .005 inch preclplta 

 tion and less than .05 inch snowfall. 



NOVEMBER 



November was decidedly warm and wet. Since state wide records began 

 in 1890, there have been but three warmer Novembers and only one with 

 more precipitation. The temperature excess was uniform over the state 

 and nearly continuous, there being only five days below normal, and over 

 no portion of the state were there more than two consecutive days below 

 normal. The minimum temperature for the state, 11 degrees, was the 

 highest ever recorded in November and the range in temperature, 63 

 degrees, the least. 



Precipitation as well as temperature, showed an excess at every station. 

 Compared with the state average, the distribution was the most uniform 

 ever experienced in November. Only three times in the last 33 years has 

 the precipitation shown an excess at every station in the state in Novem- 

 ber. Over 90 per cent of the precipitation occurred during the first 18 

 days and there were four general rainy periods, the principal one ex- 

 tending from the 11th to the 13th. The rain that occurred on the 5th, 

 in connection with a rather severe storm that passed along the western 



