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
...................................
...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
..................................................................
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!!!
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Lucky :)
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Dang-this reminds me quite nicely about why I no longer live in Iowa! Enjoyed my time there, though. =)
Lucky-Are you having fun yet? Just want you to know today in Daytona Beach it was in the high 70's. Don't worry we will probably complain when summer gets here!
Leigh,
Where did you used to live? Thanks for dropping by, haven't heard from you lately.
Midori,
We were in Marco last month for a week. It was divine! Just negotiated a time share resale so we'll be back again soon!
Lucky :)
Randy,
I wish there was a way to enlarge the photos on here. When you get over 50, you need all the help you can get!
Thanks for the warm thoughts....maybe they'll help melt the snow here.
Aloha,
Lucky :)
I lived in West Des Moines-my sales territory was the entire state of Iowa, so I've seen every town, city, burg, spot on the map...and hit every 'tourist attraction' as well. You could do some great Iowa posts on the World's Largest Swedish Coffee Pot, the Dvorak Highway, the World's Smallest Church, Birthplace of John Wayne. All the things people just don't know!
Great ideas, Leigh, when I get time I'll have to do these! Whatever, other than the obvious snow and cold, brought you to North Carolina?
Lucky :)