Round One of Phase Twelve (snow storms) started Saturday morning with spitting rain, turning to freezing rain, turning to sleet, turning to ice pellets by mid afternoon, turning to thunder snow (that's when it's thundering and lightning and snowing all at the same time) Saturday night. The crews at our villa were out early Sunday with heavy equipment trying to clear it all. They first plowed the snow which uncovered the ice. Then they salted the heck out of everything. Then they came in with this back hoe (top picture) and literally scraped all the ice off. The ice was probably over an inch thick! We usually don't get much ice here. That is saved for Missouri and Kansas where my brother, Rob Lang lives.
As I've stated before, we've been spoiled the past few years with mild temperatures and minimal snowfalls so I guess we're due. The Quad City area experienced a low temperature last night of 27 degrees and a high of 32 degrees which caused the wild combination and another 3.3" of snow/sleet/ice combination.
The total amount of snowfall since Dec 1 is 31.6" which is 6.4" more than "normal". According to the National Weather Service, here's the rest of the story:
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
419 PM CST MON FEB 26 2007
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...THE MOLINE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 26 2007...
VALID TODAY AS OF 0400 PM LOCAL TIME.
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1971 TO 2000
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1872 TO 2006
WEATHER ITEM OBSERVED TIME RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST
VALUE (LST) VALUE VALUE FROM YEAR
NORMAL
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TEMPERATURE (F)
TODAY
MAXIMUM 32 259 PM 64 1971 40 -8 36
MINIMUM 27 842 AM -14 1963 22 5 11
AVERAGE 30 31 -1 24
PRECIPITATION (IN)
TODAY 0.00 0.90 1998 0.06 -0.06 0.00
MONTH TO DATE 2.01 1.37 0.64 0.98
SINCE DEC 1 5.96 5.15 0.81 4.83
SINCE JAN 1 2.93 2.95 -0.02 3.79
SNOWFALL (IN)
TODAY 0.0 MM MM 0.2 -0.2 0.0
MONTH TO DATE 16.6 6.6 10.0 0.7
SINCE DEC 1 31.6 25.2 6.4 17.3
SINCE JUL 1 31.6 28.4 3.2 17.3
SNOW DEPTH 3
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING
TODAY 35 34 1 41
MONTH TO DATE 1231 1015 216 985
SINCE DEC 1 3369 3580 -211 3211
SINCE JUL 1 4583 4875 -292 4233
"Phil" the groundhog says we'll have an early spring. WE'RE WAITING!!!
For more info about Davenport, Iowa, go to Lucky's website.
Lucky :)
Luckily I live in Hawaii. We got spring all year round. I loved the picture of Marco Island. here is one from Makaha, Hawaii. You can't see them in the picture, but the Humpback Whales were just offshore.
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