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  • Snow Chances For Thanksgiving Week?

    We are now heading into the homestretch of November with Thanksgiving less than a week away and we still haven’t seen a flake of snow this month in the Quad Cities. That could change early next week as temperatures turn colder with high pressure building down out of Canada and as a low pressure system moves up [...]

  • THURSDAY UPDATE: Rain This Week, But No Snow

    UPDATE:  Thursday, November 19, 4:55 a.m. The Quad Cities are now in the top ten in the record books for wettest years two years in a row. Although the total rainfall amount from our latest storm (since Monday) is just around two-thirds of an inch, our 2009 precipitation tally is now up to 46.80″, making this the tenth wettest on record [...]

  • Great Strides Made in Local Harvesting

    ORIGINAL POST:  Thursday, November 12, 2009, 2:11 p.m. In the past thirteen days, only 0.01″ of rain has fallen officially in the Quad Cities.  While a few of our southern hometowns have picked up a little more than that, this almost two week stretch of dry weather has been the miracle that Mississippi and Illinois Valley farmers have been praying [...]

  • Warm November Start Keeping Winter Away

    For those of you not looking forward to the cold and the snow, the much advertised “El Nino” is keeping winter away for now.  While evidence is building that we’ll see above average temperatures this winter and below average snowfall because of the warming in the Pacific Ocean, that doesn’t mean we won’t see our fair share of [...]

  • Dry Stretch is Good News for Farmers

    The last measurable rain event in the Quad Cities back on October 29 and 30, 2009, dropped 1.50″, and closed the month of October as the ninth wettest on record.  The monthly rainfall was 5.94″. Since then, we’ve had a few raindrops on three different days in early November that only amounted to a trace of rain.  Wednesday, November [...]

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