Automated Data Plotter
This application dynamically generates many types of graphs. These graphs are derived from processing of various data sources done by the IEM. Please feel free to use these generated graphics in whatever way you wish. Reset App. The IEM Explorer application offers a simplified frontend to some of these autoplots.
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Plot Description:
This plot produces a time series difference between daily high and low temperatures against climatology. For this context, the climatology is the simple daily average based on period of record data.Based on a sampling of recent timings for this application, plot generation time has averaged 2 seconds. Hold on for the plot is generating now!

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IEM Daily Features using this plot
The IEM Daily Features found on this website often utilize plots found on this application. Here is a listing of features referencing this plot type.
- 20 Jan 2023: Warm Start to 2023
- 28 Apr 2021: Big Dip During February
- 10 Sep 2019: Largest Departure Since July
- 15 Feb 2018: Breaking our cold stretch
- 16 May 2016: Cold, but not that extreme
- 10 Dec 2015: Few Recent Cold Days