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 25 March 2025, unchanged with respect to 24 March.
Sample. In this daily time series, there are 16,155 observations overall. The span of time covered by the series is from January 1981 to March 2025.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: degree days had a mean of 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit; they recorded their maximum of 24.0 on 17 August 1988; they reached a trough of 0.0 on 1 January 1981.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Degrees Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 2025-03-23 | 0.0 |
| 2025-03-24 | 0.0 |
| 2025-03-25 | 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 |