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On this day in Iowa weather history...

1990: Unseasonably warm weather resulted in many stations setting daily record highs across Iowa including Burlington where the high temperature of 66 F broke the previous record for the date by 8 degrees. A number of stations across southern and eastern Iowa set daily records in the lower 60s including 64 F at Fort Madison, 63 F at Mount Pleasant and Muscatine, 62 F at Clinton and Fairfield, and 61 F at Washington.

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