Cooling degree days (F) - Iowa (US) - NOAA - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Heating and cooling degree days (NOAA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Iowa, cooling degree days were 0.0 degrees Fahrenheit on 30 March 2026, the same value recorded on the previous day.
Sample. In the daily series plotted above, there are 16,525 records in total. The period covered by the series stretches from January 1981 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: degree days had a mean value of 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit; they hit a peak of 24.0 on 17 August 1988; they reached their lowest level of 0.0 on 1 January 1981.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Degrees Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-28 | 0.0 |
| 2026-03-29 | 0.0 |
| 2026-03-30 | 0.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Cooling degree days |
| Country | Iowa (US) |
| Economic concept | Cooling needs |
| Data type | Estimate based on daily minimum and maximum temperatures |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | Population-weighted averages of weather-station observations |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | Degrees Fahrenheit |
| Source | NOAA National Weather Service |
| Source type | Federal Administration |
| Data licence | Not copyrightable under U.S. law |
| Measure type | (max_daily_temperature + min_daily_temperature) / 2 - 65F |
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