diff --git a/video_prediction/datasets/era5_dataset_v2.py b/video_prediction/datasets/era5_dataset_v2.py
index 00111565556014aaa868ba4f8d0c98d8c25ac732..9e32e0c638b4b39c588389e906ba29be5144ee35 100644
--- a/video_prediction/datasets/era5_dataset_v2.py
+++ b/video_prediction/datasets/era5_dataset_v2.py
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ class Norm_data:
         
         # do the denormalization and return
         if norm == "minmax":
-            return(data[...] * (getattr(self,varname+"max") - getattr(self,varname+"min")) + getattr(self,varname+"max"))
+            return(data[...] * (getattr(self,varname+"max") - getattr(self,varname+"min")) + getattr(self,varname+"min"))
         elif norm == "znorm":
             return(data[...] * getattr(self,varname+"sigma")**2 + getattr(self,varname+"avg"))