There was some relief from the summer heat for the start of the week, but it’s about to warm back up.

According to National Weather Service Meteorologist Allan Curtis, a swirling cold front this past weekend from the Dakotas is what brought about the cooler temperatures through Monday. He adds that the cloud coverage and sporadic rains were also a factor in the cooler than average temperatures. Curtis says that a normal average temperature for this time of year is anywhere from the low 80’s in the northern half of Iowa, and high 80’s in the southern part of the state.

Curtis tells Raccoon Valley Radio that things will start to warm back up to normal in the later part of the week.

“As we go forward Tuesday, we’ll already see some of those warmups come back. Even though the winds stay out of the north, we get a lot of sunshine coming back in, and this time of year, the sun alone can heat us up rather quickly. So we’ll be back close to normal, still a little bit cool. But then the rest of the week we generally get southerly, southwesterly winds coming back, and that again, tied in with a good amount of sunshine is going to push us back into the 80’s pretty quickly for the most part, Wednesday through the rest of the week.”

Curtis mentions that there will be a small system that makes its way across the area on Thursday, but that it won’t cool things off nearly as much as they were on Monday. He adds that by the weekend the area will reach temperatures above average, moving into the low to mid 90’s.