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  • 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 [...]

  • Wet October Close Going Down in History

    UPDATE:  Monday, November 2, 2009, 5:22 a.m. October 2009 is going down in the record books as the 9th coldest and 9th wettest on record in the Quad Cities. We picked up 5.94″ of rain and the average temperature for the month was 48.5, which was 4.5 degrees cooler than average. In the month, we did pick up a trace [...]

  • Heading into November

    ORIGINAL POST:  Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:12 a.m.  Many changes are coming our way as we wrap up the month of October and head into November. Temperatures through Thursday will warm into the 60s as a major winter storm developing over the Southwestern part of the country pushes southerly winds into the Quad Cities.  These same winds [...]

  • Another Heavy Rain Event

    UPDATE:  Saturday, October 24, 9:22 a.m. Thursday marked the 16th day in 2009 that we officially picked up an inch or more of rain.  We ended up with 1.47″ at Quad City International.   When you add the 0.51″ we’ve picked up Friday, this pushes our annual total to 44.31″, which places 2009 as the 12th wettest on record and we have [...]

  • Too Early for Accumulating Snow?

    The Quad Cities have already seen the first light snow of the season.  The large flakes that filled our skies last Saturday (October 10th), along with the chilly rains, are definitely getting people talking about the upcoming winter season. Ethan, from Abingdon, Illinois, just south of Galesburg in Knox County, is excited about the landscape turning [...]

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