Several locations in Iowa recorded low temperatures in the double-digits below-zero over the final two days of 2014 — which will enter the record books as one of the coldest years in the state’s history. State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says only three of the 12 months posted an above normal average temperature (May, June, and December).
The statewide average temperature for the entire year was 45.4 degrees.
The coldest official temperature recorded in Iowa this year was 29-below zero in Elkader — both on January 28 and February 11.
Not a single Iowa city recorded a temperature in the triple digits through all of 2014.
Hillaker says Two-thousand-fourteen will go down as the 15th wettest year in Iowa history. The month of June was especially wet — with record flooding across northwest Iowa.
