This Day in Weather History January 23

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

1909: Unseasonably warm weather pushed temperatures into the upper 60s and lower 70s across southeastern Iowa including a reading of 72 F at Keokuk which is just one degree shy of the all-time Iowa January record. Other reported high temperatures included 70 F at Bonaparte, Fairfield, and Keosauqua, 69 F at Bloomfield, and 68 F at Mount Pleasant and Ottumwa. The warm weather would be followed less than a week later by one of the worst blizzards in decades on the 28th-30th.

Source: National Weather Service Des Moines