Some relief and wildfire smoke settles into Eastern Iowa after horrid heat on Monday

The feeling outside right now usually wouldn’t count as relief, but it does after the awful conditions of Monday. Dew points reached record levels and sent heat indices soaring to nearly 120!

Dew points in the 80s are not common in Iowa and mostly created by a tropical airmass and evapotranspiration, or corn sweat. In fact, there’s never been an 84 dew point recorded in Cedar Rapids.

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